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Jean-Paul Jauffret (born August 22, 1930 in Bordeaux) is a French businessman, politician and tennis player, eldest son of a well-known French tennis family.

Jauffret was several times world veteran team champion and French cadet champion in 1946.

He is one of the most respected figures of Bordeaux wine during the 2nd half of the 20th century. He devotes an important part of his life to the wine industry: among other things, he runs the wine trading house CVBG-Dourthe-Kressmann and creates in 1981 the Vinexpo exhibition. He is elected president of the CIVB and later elected Perpetual member of the Bordeaux Wine Academy.

He also got involved in politics and in 1995 he becomes Alain Juppé's finance assistant at the Bordeaux town hall, after which the city benefits from a better financial situations and decreases its own debt and subsequently gets closer to the wine industry, by relaunching the wine festival in 1998, which has been abandoned since 1909.

Professional career

 * CEO of the wine trading house CVBG-Dourthe-Kressmann


 * President of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council
 * Honorary President of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council


 * 1981 : Creates the Vinexpo exhibition, worldwide exhibition taking place every second year in the city of Bordeaux.
 * 1981-1996 : President of Vinexpo.
 * since 1996 : Honorary President of Vinexpo, of the Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council and the Banque Populaire du Sud-Ouest local bank.


 * 1995-2007: President of the mixed economy company Gaz de Bordeaux (Bordeaux Gas).


 * President of the Banque Populaire du Sud-Ouest local bank.
 * Member of the Bordeaux Wine Academy.
 * Honorary consul of Hungary

Sports career

 * Veteran Team World Champion
 * Cadet French Champion (1953)
 * President of Guyenne's tennis league
 * Member of the Federal Arbitration Commission of the French Tennis Federation

Electoral mandates
During the 2006 elections, he gets a vote from the Socialist Party-Communist Party opposition.
 * 1995-2008 : Deputy mayor of Bordeaux, in charge of public finance and budget.
 * Judge at the commercial court of Bordeaux.

Personal life
Jean-Paul Jauffret is the brother of François Jauffret, professional tennis player, who holds the record for selection to the France Davis Cup team. He is a nine-time France Champion and wins several international titles in the '60s and '70s. His nephew Loïc Courteau has been the trainer of Amélie Mauresmo and Julien Benneteau.

He is married to Huguette Dourthe and father of four girls.