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2 unusual facts about Paul Masson


Marty Ingels

His voice-overs and commercials include those for Paul Masson wines, with his uniquely raspy voice.

Paul Masson

The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1970s marketing association with Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: "We will sell no wine before its time." An infamous outtake for one commercial from the Orson Welles campaign features Welles attempting to deliver his lines while very severely inebriated.


France at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Three were won by Paul Masson who won every event he entered, with Léon Flameng adding the fourth as well as a silver and a bronze.

Gamay Beaujolais

In the late 1930s an early pioneer of the American viticulture, Paul Masson, brought with him several Burgundian grapes for his winery in California.


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