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Equipment
OneCircle has been marketing to France since 2015, and to date has sold 500,000 KeyKegs per year to 300 French customers, 65% of them brewery operators and 35% in the wine industry.

Friday June 11 2021

Prominent distributor takes over sales of keg wines in France

“Soufflet Vigne has become the exclusive distributor of KeyKeg barrels for the wine market in France”, stated a press release
Vine growing
Genodics promises a refund if the spread of the disease does not slow down by at least 30%.

Wednesday June 09 2021

Controversy over efficacy of Genodics technique against vine esca

Have the 140 winegrowers who installed Genodics boxes in their vineyards to limit the spread of esca been taken for a ride? This is what research (...)
Equipment
“We have two problems to solve”, says Emmanuel Ogereau: “The wind and the time it takes to install the fleece. It took us 50 hours with several people”.

Friday June 04 2021

Wrap your vines in a fleece to protect them against the frost!

For the second consecutive year, two estates in Anjou-Saumur took part in a trial monitored by the national institute for origin and quality (...)
Vine growing
Breton winegrowers range in backgrounds from newcomers seeking a change of career to Breton farmers aiming to diversify into winegrowing.

Thursday June 03 2021

The Breton wine industry becomes more structured and professional

The triskelion is a Celtic symbol with a strong identity in Brittany and it has been used as the basis for the new logo to mark the restructuring (...)
Equipment
Several major companies have confirmed they will be attending Sitevi.

Tuesday June 01 2021

Sitevi marks the return of the major technical exhibitions

It’s great to hear some good news. “After 2020 and the unprecedented global health and economic crisis, Sitevi, the world's (...)
Land management
The price of vines outside appellation boundaries rose by 0.9% (to €14,500/ha), following a “gradual upturn over the last 10 years” commented land registry agency SAFER.

Monday May 31 2021

Covid has a significant impact on prices of French vineyards

In 2020, “the [real estate] market for vineyards was seriously impacted by the pandemic. We recorded a thirty-year low in the number (...)
Equipment
To optimise the space required in wineries, Quentin Joly explains that the company can also design square tanks.

Thursday May 27 2021

Maturing wines in amphorae produced with a 3-D printer

Located near Limoges, Biopythos was the only company able to market porcelain amphorae. “Thanks to 3D printing, we are now also able (...)
Monday May 24 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Carole Dumont stresses that just because the vines are budding again a month late does not mean that harvesting will take place in October. “The grapes can ripen very quickly on vines with a light crop load as long as the sun returns and the soil has enough water”.

Frost-struck French vineyards very slowly resume growth

“All of April and part of May were like winter”, says Carole Dumont, vineyard consultant for Simonit & Sirch in Burgundy and (...)
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Thursday May 13 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The project will secure the water supply for this part of the La Clape hill range, which is one of the driest regions in Occitania and has been heavily penalised by climate change.

Vines irrigated using waste water from tourists

The Irri-Alt'Eau project is upping the ante. After a test phase at INRAe Pech Rouge, 80 hectares of vines will be irrigated with wastewater (...)
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Tuesday May 11 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Protected vineyard blocks are faring slightly better.

Frost catches secondary buds of Chardonnay in Burgundy

Frost in Burgundy has been particularly destructive this spring, and in the worst affected vineyards, the vegetation is only just starting (...)
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Friday May 07 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Information presented in the form of fact sheets is taken from official data (PlantGrape catalogue) complemented by the results of the latest research programmes.

20 rootstocks for tomorrow’s vineyards in Burgundy

Which rootstocks are best suited to Burgundy vineyards for the next 50 years? In a recently published guide, this was the question the marketing (...)
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Thursday May 06 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
Consumption fluctuates more on the road than in the vineyards.

Up to a 30% reduction in fuel for high-clearance tractors and grape harvesters

Joël Leloup, the workshop manager at Vignobles Larose-Trintaudon in the Médoc, is delighted. He has just ordered three new kits from Ecopra, (...)
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Wednesday April 28 2021 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
Although the Merlot grapes were quite large, they produced wines showing good tannic structure, no rustic characters or dilution.

Bordeaux looks back on its 2020 vintage

“As the harvest got nearer, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a lot of concern among wine growers. Various adjustments had to be made, but (...)
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Monday April 26 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
If current estimates are confirmed, the 2021 harvest would be lower than that of 2017, which totalled just 38 million hl.

France’s wine production estimated at 32 million hl

Ygor Gibelind, wine industry delegate at FranceAgriMer, tentatively put forward the figure of 32 million hectolitres of wine for this year’s (...)
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Friday April 23 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere

Europe’s wine regions seriously affected by frost

As in France, winegrowers across Europe are assessing the consequences of the arctic temperatures that swept through many wine regions last (...)
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Friday April 16 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
After three years of intense work, the winery was delighted this winter to mount its autonomous unit on a New Holland machine, which will handle distribution. Next year, 100 hectares will be pruned using R2T2.

They say this robot will prune as well as a winegrower

The R2T2 project, endorsed by Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation and granted funding of 3 million euros, has just won the Agri Sud-Ouest high school (...)
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Thursday April 15 2021 - Equipment by Vitisphere
The first results collected during the 2019 season on the Piolenc site showed that vines shaded by the equipment withstood soaring summer temperatures better than the others.

26 photovoltaic projects in French vineyards for Sun'Agri

Winegrowers in the South of France are pioneering the development of agrivoltaics: among the 37 Sun'Agri projects selected in the “innovative (...)
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Monday April 12 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Two regions seem to have come out unscathed – Alsace and Pyrénées-Orientales.

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 (...)
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Tuesday April 06 2021 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
“The trend towards organic conversion is based on the social awareness of our members”, adds Philippe Cazaux.

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: (...)
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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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