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Winemaking
The protocol includes three 2-hour sessions at the ‘Gustarium’ in the Languedoc wine centre.

Friday September 24 2021

French oenologists are teaching chemotherapy patients how to rehabilitate their sense of smell

An experiment where oenologists rehabilitate patients suffering from multiple myeloma or lymphoma in taste and smell after chemotherapy will
Equipment
Pressure on prices and supplies is not just affecting consumable items. Rising prices of stainless steel are also having an impact on purchases of new tanks.

Thursday September 23 2021

Why the French wine industry is running out of wooden cases, boxes and glass bottles

Members of the French wine industry have not even begun to think about the inevitable increase in the price of their wines due to the small (...)
Vine growing
Further rainfall is forecast around 23 September, fuelling fears.

Monday September 20 2021

The heavens open as Languedoc enters the final phase of harvesting

On September 14 and 15, torrential rain fell on vineyards in the Gard and Hérault areas of southern France, bringing harvesting to a standstill. (...)
Vine growing
Regarding the inclusion of hybrids in GI production specifications, Jérémy Cukierman claims, “I am still a little sceptical”.

Friday September 17 2021

'Tomorrow's Wine', a compendium of solutions for addressing climate change

“Quel vin pour demain?” or “Tomorrow’s Wine. Wine in the Face of Climate Change”, by Jérémy Cukierman MW, wine (...)
Vine growing
'By their very nature, these forecasts cannot take into account events that may occur after this date and influence the harvest,' said the French administration.

Monday September 13 2021

French crop falls by 29% to all-time low in 2021

“Wine production in 2021 is expected to be in the range of 33 million hectolitres, 29% lower than in 2020 and 25% lower than the average (...)
Winemaking
The cask of Secret du Pallet spent a year underground.

Thursday September 09 2021

Using a legendary formula, growers bury a cask of wine for a year

Can a Nantes wine retail for €100 a bottle? Why not, say the winegrowers of Le Pallet. The members of a co-operative that is affiliated (...)
Winemaking
“From now on, why not specify the amount of copper used per hectare?” reflects Didier Berthollier (right).

Wednesday September 08 2021

French winegrowers state sulphite content on their labels

Could this be a first? “Personally, I never seen anyone else do it”, claims Savoy winegrower Didier Berthollier. For the past (...)
Tuesday September 07 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
After the raging wildfires in August, summer ended with a devastating hailstorm.

Provence vineyards damaged by hail

On Tuesday 24 August, just two days before harvesting was due to start, Antoine Paris watched helplessly as hailstones measuring 2 to 3 cm (...)
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Thursday July 29 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Interestingly, future specifications for the Médoc appellations also provide for trials of new grape varieties Arinarnoa, Marselan, Castet and Touriga nacional.

AOC Médoc, Haut-Médoc and Listrac-Médoc to enforce mandatory environmental certification in two years’ time

At an extraordinary general meeting on 5 July, the Médoc, Haut-Médoc and Listrac-Médoc appellation board validated its plans to incorporate (...)
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Wednesday July 28 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
“In April, frost was the only issue, but now we are expecting more [yield] loss due to drought”, sums up Julien Thiery.

Drought warning across the vineyards of Roussillon

“After mildew last year and now frost and drought this year, winegrowers are under great pressure”, summarises Anne-Marie Castagné, (...)
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Monday July 26 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
At 52, Jean-Claude Credoz has no recollection of ever seeing this amount of damage in Jura.

Landslide carries vineyard away in Jura

“Yet another disaster. We had already been dealt a big blow by the spring frost, hail and mildew, during our third year of conversion (...)
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Friday July 23 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
François Jamet claims that he has received generally positive feedback from his fellow winegrowers: 'They told me that my idea was not daft, and that it was certainly an avenue to explore”.

Could underground heat exchangers combat frost in vineyards?

“The vines around the cellar vents are often not affected by frost. Could this be due to the temperate air that permanently reigns in (...)
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Thursday July 22 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
IFV V'innopole South-West and its partners organised the first event of the early summer in Peyrole, in the Tarn region, with 45 exhibitors, including Greenshield (photo), and 280 visitors.

Pattern spraying to reduce the amount of plant protection products in vineyards

In the past, the amount of plant protection products used was lowered by applying less mixture per hectare per spray. Greenshield has come (...)
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Tuesday July 20 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
One word sums up the general feeling across Champagne after torrential rain fell on vines already badly affected by mildew – unprecedented.

Champagne winegrowers crack under pressure from mildew

“Last week, I said that this week would either be a saving grace for everyone, or we’d be in over our heads”, comments Franck (...)
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Tuesday July 13 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere

AOC wines now eligible for grape varieties with resistance to downy and powdery mildew

Changes are underway in the appellation vineyards of Europe, where until now only European grape varieties of the Vitis vinifera species could (...)
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Thursday July 08 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The profession is changing, not to mention weather incidents. “The risks of frost and flooding are increasing, putting our production at risk”.

How climate change is changing the nursery profession

“Forty years ago, each village had its own nursery, where winegrowers would come and collect their vines without wondering too much (...)
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Tuesday July 06 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The consequences of the tornado include the loss of crops, buildings and equipment destroyed and time needed to repair the damage.

Substantial damage caused by a tornado in the Loire Valley prompts community spirit

“It crossed our village diagonally, from south to north, sweeping up and devastating everything in its path: sheds, roofs, agricultural (...)
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Monday June 28 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
For Christian Huyghe, Resdur grape varieties must rise to the “challenge of making France a benchmark in producing wine with a low environmental impact”.

Four disease-resistant grape varieties find fast track to French AOC recognition

Developed by the French National Research Institute for Agriculture and the Environment (INRAE), the first four French vine varieties resistant (...)
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Friday June 25 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
A new director, Anne-Laure Ferroir, has also just been recruited by Terra Vitis.

The environmental endorsement Terra Vitis now covers 5% of French vineyards

“We are no longer a bunch of do-it-yourselfers ploughing our own furrow! We matter in the wine industry”, claims Benoît Ab-der-Halden, (...)
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Tuesday June 22 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Using RNA technology, the ability of the S. titanus leafhopper to transmit flavescence dorée phytoplasma to grapevines could be eliminated.

RNA emerges as a new way of combatting flavescence dorée in vineyards

Could RNA technology, used in certain anti-Covid vaccines, also be used to combat flavescence dorée in the future? This is the new avenue (...)
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