Bruce Duncan Guimaraens

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Bruce Duncan Guimaraens (27 October 1935 – 22 August 2002) was a port wine maker

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal on 27 October 1935, Bruce Guimaraens was the great-great-grandson of Manuel Pedro Guimaraens founder of the London house of the famous Fonseca Port firm in 1822. His father was Charles Guimaraens, Managing Director of W&J Graham Ltd and his elder brother Gordon was Production Director of Cockburn's Port House.

In 1949 the family-owned house of Fonseca was purchased by Taylor, Fladgate, and Yeatman.

Guimaraens was educated at Abingdon School and served in the Gold Coast, now Ghana, from 1953 to 1956 as a Lieutenant in the Royal West African Frontier Force. In 1956 he joined Taylor-Fonseca and trained under Dick and Stanley Yeatman. Guimaraens became a full partner in the firm in 1961, assuming responsibility for Fonseca winemaking and vineyard management for the Taylor-Fonseca group.

References

The Fonseca Working Document - Comprehensive historical research commissioned for the Fladgate Partnership by Andrew Jones fwm@clara.net

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Name	Guimaraens, Bruce Duncan
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Date of death	2002
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