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The other application not selected this year was that of “the expertise of Parisian zinc roofers and decorators”.

Wednesday April 14 2021

The Biou d'Arbois winegrowers' festival revises its application for world heritage status

For the third time, the application by the Biou d'Arbois winegrowers’ festival ranked among the French finalists to be included
Business
The property has been in the family since 1847 and Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse will be the eighth generation of the family to run it.

Tuesday April 13 2021

Saint-Émilion classified growth sells for €75 million

The Aquitaine board of directors of French land registry authorities (SAFER) officialised the sale of the disputed Château Beauséjour Héritiers (...)
Vine growing
Two regions seem to have come out unscathed – Alsace and Pyrénées-Orientales.

Monday April 12 2021

Unprecedented cold snap wreaks havoc across France’s wine regions

A high pressure system descending from Iceland swept across all of France’s wine regions from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 April. Initial (...)
Industry issues

Friday April 09 2021

French winegrowers call for financial support from the European Commission

The release of European aid seems to be the wine industry’s priority since the start of the year Jean-Marie Fabre (chairman of the (...)
Business
The Cox-in-Tube has a price tag of €38 for the Chardonnay and €40 for the red Côtes-du-Rhône Signargues.

Thursday April 08 2021

One winegrower has chosen to put his bag-in-box in an artistic cylinder

Château des Coccinelles, an 80-hectare estate in the southern Rhone Valley owned by the Fabre family, has released a more elegant version (...)
marketing
Long before bubbles came along, the Champagne wine region was a major producer of red wines (“clairets”), which far outnumbered white and rosé wines (“paillets”), before secondary bottle fermentation was mastered.

Wednesday April 07 2021

Coteaux Champenois, Champagne’s new wave

Why all the renewed interest in Champagne still wines? For those in the front line – both the winegrowers and the houses – the (...)
Vine growing
“The trend towards organic conversion is based on the social awareness of our members”, adds Philippe Cazaux.

Tuesday April 06 2021

Bordeaux converting to organic on a massive scale

Although no precise figures are as yet available, the wave of conversions to organic in the vineyards of Bordeaux is undoubtedly growing: (...)
Monday April 05 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
To make matters worse, on April 1, Emmanuel Buisson feared radiation frost on Sunday morning, April 4, in the South-East, Bordeaux area, the Loire Valley and Burgundy.

French vineyards on maximum frost alert

The co-founder of the Weather Measures company and agricultural meteorology specialist, Emmanuel Buisson would have liked to make an April (...)
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Friday April 02 2021 - Business by Vitisphere
Since 2014, Moët Hennessy-Ruinart's own vineyards have rolled out 120 areas dedicated to biodiversity, and grass cover is used over more than 95% of vineyard acreage.

Ruinart Champagne set to plant 14,000 trees in its vineyards in a year

Many Champagne companies publicise their vineyard management techniques, but far fewer translate them into acts bordering on militancy. Ruinart, (...)
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Thursday April 01 2021 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
To the best of our knowledge, there is only one product that can stabilise wines specifically against calcium precipitation and that is STABICa from the Champagne research centre.

An increase in calcium precipitation in wines

"Unlike potassium bitartrate, which has transparent crystals, neutral calcium tartrate has a whitish appearance in white and rosé wines. (...)
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Wednesday March 31 2021 - Business by Vitisphere
Although the digital exhibition is more time-consuming to execute and requires shipping samples, it can nevertheless reach out to new visitors who would not have made the trip.

Millésime Bio to retain digital format in 2022

The first digital Millésime Bio trade fair, which this year opened in two stages, first from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 January, then on Thursday (...)
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Tuesday March 30 2021 - Business by Vitisphere
Due to loss of business, independent wineries are asking for increased government support.

Covid puts paid to independent winegrower fairs in France this spring

France’s independent winegrowers’ federation has reluctantly announced that it is cancelling the seven fairs that were due to (...)
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Monday March 29 2021 - Industry issues by Vitisphere
Presiding over the Council meeting on 23 March, the Portuguese Minister for Agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes, said that CAP negotiations must be finalised over the first half of 2021.

2045, the new deadline for new vineyard planting permits

At its meeting on 22 and 23 March, the Council of EU Agriculture Ministers added discussions on the Common Market Organisation for Wine (CMO (...)
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Friday March 26 2021 - marketing by Vitisphere
The aim is not to stigmatise conventional farming methods. By opening up a third avenue, the endorsement has proved, even in 2020 and certainly in the future, that zero can be positive.

Pesticide residue-free trust mark gains traction

Launched in 2018, the ‘pesticide residue-free’ endorsement supported by the ‘Nouveaux Champs’ collective of French (...)
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Thursday March 25 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Regarding adaptation of vineyard management techniques, the report advises reducing tillage and switching to more surface procedures, or even just mowing.

Just planting trees won’t “foster biodiversity in vineyards”

Agroforestry is undeniably on-trend, in fact it’s decidedly fashionable in the wine industry with plantings and trials rapidly increasing. (...)
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Wednesday March 24 2021 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
“Burgundy is doing well overall, but this should not hide the suffering of some firms who produce small quantities and used to sell their wine to a small network of French customers”, stresses the chairman of the BIVB.

Burgundy wines buck general downward trend

Despite the ongoing crisis, Burgundy wines showed sustained export volume growth in 2020, with consignments in excess of 90 million equivalent (...)
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Tuesday March 23 2021 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
Lack of consumer trade fairs and the prolonged closure of restaurants nevertheless had an impact on the region.

Provence rosés post best export performance in 2020

“We’ve fared pretty well”, Brice Eymard, managing director of the Provence wine marketing board CIVP, told AFP on 15 March. (...)
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Monday March 22 2021 - Business by Vitisphere
The blend is 87% Merlot, 7% Cabernet-Sauvignon and 6% Cabernet Franc, matured in stainless steel tanks to preserve the fruit.

Mouton Cadet ventures into organic wines

At the ripe old age of 90, Mouton Cadet is reinventing itself by releasing an organic version. “This important day is the culmination (...)
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Friday March 19 2021 - Wine people by Vitisphere
“Everyone must be able to carry on. It is important to maintain the diversity of European viticulture”, said Thierry Coste.

Thierry Coste takes stock as he steps down as chair of the Copa-Cogeca wine group

Since 2010, Thierry Coste, a winegrower from Hérault in the South of France, has been elected six times in a row as chair of the wine group (...)
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Thursday March 18 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
These initial tests still need to be confirmed by further trials.

First tests, and effects, of exoskeletons on winegrowers’ backs

Once you’ve tried it, you’ll want to keep it. After a week of exoskeleton tests at the beginning of March on several different (...)
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