Pedro Domecq Loustau

Pedro Domecq Loustau (born as Pierre Patient Domecq; Usquain, September 10, 1824 – Saint Gladie, September 5, 1894) was a French winemaking businessman, owner of the Pedro Domecq wineries, together with Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota. These wineries were founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1822, by Pedro Domecq Lembeye, following the acquisition of the assets and brands of the company "Juan Haurie y Sobrinos" from Juan Carlos Haurie Puzein, which had previously belonged to Jean Haurie Nebout and originally founded in 1730 by Patrick Murphy Woodlock. Today, the company is known as Bodegas Fundador.

He was the son of Pierre Domecq Lembeye and Marie de Loustau. He completed his early studies at the Moncade School in Orthez and later at Baylis House, a boarding school near Slough. He then attended the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, graduating in 1843. He became the third member of the Domecq family to move from France to Jerez de la Frontera. The first was his uncle Pedro Domecq Lembeye, founder of the Pedro Domecq wineries, followed by his uncle Juan Pedro Domecq, who introduced him to the Jerez winemaking business in 1848.

In 1867, he established a new partnership to continue the business alongside Juan Pedro Domecq, with both contributing equally to the capital. In 1869, following his uncle's death, he took over management of the business, which he shared with his cousin Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota.

He was the first of the Domecq family to marry a woman from Jerez. In 1868, he married Carmen Núñez de Villavicencio y Olaguer Feliú, a member of a noble family from Jerez. In 1920, the king granted her the title of Marchioness of Domecq d'Usquain. They had ten children, six of whom survived, forming the different branches of the Domecq family in Jerez de la Frontera. He was succeeded in the management of the winery business by his son, Pedro Domecq Núñez de Villavicencio.

Around 1874, he began marketing the first brandy produced in Jerez and throughout Spain under the brand name "FUNDADOR." According to tradition, this product emerged unexpectedly after a batch of distilled alcohol, ordered by a customer who later cancelled the purchase, remained stored in Domecq's barrels for five years. He died at the Saint Pé residence in Saint-Gladie-Arrive-Munein.