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Muscadet is being kept on its toes and is preparing for more frost this spring and this vintage but also the following vintages as budburst is occurring increasingly earlier.

Monday April 06 2020

The battle of endurance against spring frosts has started in France

After a winter more like spring, France’s wine regions are now experiencing a spring more like winter, particularly Muscadet. With bud
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A Pellenc production line in Pertuis.

Friday April 03 2020

Equipment factories shut down due to the coronavirus crisis

The Case New Holland Industrial group made a radical decision on Friday March 20 when it announced the shutdown of all its European production (...)
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Vine scorching as seen in Languedoc in 2019.

Thursday April 02 2020

Research into water stress, genetics and hybridization makes headway

Experts and scientists unanimously agree that in some regions, particularly Occitania in southern France, water availability is constantly (...)
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Frost has wrought damage on vines in the Rhone Valley, Provence and Gard for the first time this year.

Monday March 30 2020

Frost hits the vineyards of southern France

The cold snap that has settled over France in recent days has taken its toll on some vineyards. In Var, the damage is very noticeable. “It's (...)
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Solar panels installed in vineyards seem to have an impact on the vine's resistance to water stress.

Tuesday March 10 2020

First conclusive results on agrivoltaics in France

Vines thrive under the shade afforded by photovoltaic panels according to preliminary results thrown up by the pilot site in Piolenc, Vaucluse, (...)
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Four out of five HVE farms are in the wine industry. Nearly one in five certified estates is in Bordeaux.

Tuesday March 03 2020

HVE certifications double on the French supply side

On January 1, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture recorded 5,399 French farms certified High Environmental Value (see infographics below). The (...)
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The unpaid order represented a loss of 4,200 bottles of wine.

Thursday February 27 2020

Scam leaves €19,000 of wines unpaid in Beaujolais

A Fleurie winegrower was contacted by email by a man posing as the buyer of a genuine wine industry company. Trusting his credentials, he (...)
Thursday February 13 2020 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
“Our charter prompts three types of reaction from winegrowers: “It gets on my nerves”, “I have things to hide” and “OK, we have to take the plunge, this is the way of the world”, commented Jacques Carroget on 3 February in Angers.

Natural wines get definition and commitments

Defining and establishing a framework for natural wines is something of a tall order, but those behind the initiative hope to rapidly remove (...)
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Thursday February 06 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The Côtes-de-Provence appellation area wants to introduce new drought-resistant grape varieties into the appellation specifications for experimental purposes. Here, Moschofilero for rosé, Calabrese for reds and white Verdejo.

Côtes-de-Provence to try out foreign varietals

With the help of the French Vine & Wine Institute, the Chamber of Agriculture and the IHEV, the Côtes de Provence producer’s organisation (...)
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Tuesday January 28 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
7,350 hectares of vineyard plantings have been authorised for 2020.

600 winegrowers fined for not planting vines

A fine for being too slow? This is essentially what FranceAgriMer is going to charge winegrowers who have still not planted their new vines (...)
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Friday January 24 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The prototype of the Céol inter-row and hybrid robot built by the start-up Agreenculture has taken its first steps in the vineyard.

Agreenculture unveils its robot Céol

Centéol now has a younger brother, and there’ll soon be more. Start-up company Agreenculture, created in 2016, recently released a video (...)
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Thursday January 23 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
A Pinot Noir bud swelling in José Garcia's vineyard in Tourouzelle.

Languedoc vines are starting to emerge from their slumber

Weeping vines and buds starting to swell were the first signs of an early start to the growth cycle that emerged in the vineyards of Languedoc (...)
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Friday January 17 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Created in 2011 by Gaëtan Séverac and Aymeric Barthes, two robotics engineers, the Toulouse-based start-up designs and markets electric agricultural robots capable of mechanically weeding crops (vegetables and vines) autonomously.

Naïo Technologies raises 14 million euros

“Investor confidence has been key to the success of this new €14 million fund raising”, claimed Aymeric Barthes, CEO and (...)
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Thursday December 12 2019 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Advocates believe that labelling statements featuring kinship with a varietal name familiar to consumers (Cabernet, Merlot...) would speed up the spread of new disease-resistant varieties without misleading consumers.

OIV rejects names of existing varieties for disease-resistant hybrids

“For new varieties, the use of names that could lead to confusion with those of existing varieties should be avoided, especially when (...)
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Thursday December 05 2019 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
This vintage, winemakers in southern France must also watch out for mouse taint.

Mediterranean firms on the alert for contaminants

The disparate 2019 vintage has led to very different fermentation itineraries in French wineries, according to comments made during the Sitevi (...)
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Wednesday December 04 2019 - Winemaking by Vitisphere
The Smart Green and Classic Green stoppers now have a zero carbon footprint.

Nomacorc announces the release of grape-based stoppers in 2020

“We plan to launch a Nomacorc stopper made from grape pomace in 2020”, said Olav Aagaard, vice-president of Vinventions' R&D (...)
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Monday December 02 2019 - Equipment by Vitisphere
“We come as a complement, not as a replacement for the tractor”, explained Fabien Arignon on November 26 at Sitevi.

A new hybrid robot for winegrowers

“So this thing is a tractor”. The comment much amused and flattered Fabien Arignon, managing director of Nantes-based SME Sitia (...)
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Friday November 22 2019 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Photo of the entire Bakus straddle robot family.

Vitibot launches two new Bakus robots

The Bakus family of robots just got two new members! Vitibot has birthed two “kids”. The new generation has been called P75b and (...)
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Tuesday November 19 2019 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
An end to the use of glyphosate will result in significant extra costs for winegrowers.

A report pinpoints the cost of a ban on glyphosate

On Tuesday, November 12, the French National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee examined the conclusions of the joint fact-finding (...)
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Friday November 08 2019 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
'We are asking the State to take responsibility. We want the same rules to apply across France' stressed the Anjou and Saumur wine producers’ organisation.

27 Anjou and Saumur appellations stop blanket chemical weed control

At last! Legislation formalising new specifications for the 27 Anjou-Saumur appellations has just been published, and contains one hard-hitting (...)
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