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The Viti-Tunnel also warded off black rot, dead arm disease and grey rot. To combat powdery mildew, which only requires dampness and wind to spread, the partner chateaux used 2 to 4 kg per hectare of wettable sulphur every 10 to 20 days.

Wednesday January 13 2021

A tunnel shelters vines from 80% of plant protection products

A tunnel formed by two stainless steel tubes which unroll a waterproof tarpaulin over vines when a sensor at the end of the row detects that
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Pierre Desprat accepts his reputation as the custodian of volcanic wines. His personal vision is that only wines from volcanic plots should eligible for the endorsement.

Friday December 25 2020

Official endorsement and geo-oenological studies in the pipeline for ‘Volcanic wine’

There is no white smoke yet, but a few fumaroles are already indicating that volcanic vineyards are reaching boiling point. “We can (...)
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68% of estates using horse-drawn farm implements are certified organic.

Wednesday December 23 2020

3 % of French winegrowers use horses

“Over the past few years we have seen renewed interest in horse-drawn implements from winegrowers aiming to use fewer chemical inputs (...)
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A summary of these trials is due in six months’ time.

Monday December 21 2020

Does biodynamic winegrowing produce better quality wines?

Several producers tempted by biodynamic winegrowing in Anjou asked Philippe Chrétien of the French Institute of Vine and Wine (IFV) in Angers (...)
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The trials did not cause any burns or damage to the grapes.

Thursday December 17 2020

Electric weeding performs as well as glyphosate beneath the vines

Electric weeding has proven its efficacy in vineyards belonging to the French Vine & Wine Institute (IFV) in Lisle-sur-Tarn. Three times, (...)
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Although the grapes have been tried and tested, they will remain secondary varieties in Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur production specifications.

Friday December 11 2020

Bordeaux is ready to plant its new grape varieties

Three weeks ago, the national institute of appellations and origin, INAO, gave the 4,500 winegrowers producing Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur (...)
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Along with its conversion to organic, Domaine Royal de Jarras has also rolled out disease-resistant grape varieties on a dozen hectares.

Thursday December 10 2020

Europe’s largest wine estate offers a shining example of resilience to climate change

Can 429 hectares of vineyards at Europe’s largest wine estate, Domaine Royal de Jarras in Aigues-Mortes, in the Camargue, be converted (...)
Tuesday December 08 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
“We are going to roll out the sensor in several vineyards next summer to acquire more data and automate the calibration”, promises Benjamin Boissier.

The first yield monitor sensor is on its way

By 2022, winegrowers will no longer need to walk up and down their vine rows as the harvest approaches to estimate their yield. A sensor developed (...)
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Thursday December 03 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
According to the survey, two in three non-certified winegrowers plan to join an environmental scheme in the coming years.

Two in three independent French winegrowers belong to an environmental scheme

“Once again, the figures illustrate how rapidly independent winegrowers are responding to environmental challenges. 69% of them are (...)
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Monday November 30 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
When in doubt and to avoid a drop in productivity, Professor Alain Deloire recommends winegrowers wait until the cold weather sets in before pruning short.

Budburst occurs during pruning in Bordeaux and Burgundy

“A second harvest is looming in the vineyards of Chablis”, claimed Frédéric Percheron in a Facebook post in the ‘Equipment (...)
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Friday November 27 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
“The phasing out of CMRs has shown us that many things are possible in Bordeaux”, says Philippe Degrendel.

Mouton Cadet in search of the Holy Grail of ‘zero pesticide residue’

“For our ninetieth harvest, all Mouton Cadet winegrowers are HVE (High Environmental Value) certified”, announced Véronique Hombroekx, (...)
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Tuesday November 24 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
For the next applications for planting permits, the Business Plan will be reviewed in April 2021, following the appointment of a new BNIC chair.

Cognac approves 2,300 ha of vine plantings for 2021

The Charente area's request for 2,306 hectares of new planting authorisations for 2021 was passed on 18 November by the standing committee (...)
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Thursday November 05 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Winegrowers who do not comply with the new obligations will run the risk of having their vineyards declassified.

Compulsory exemption for planting conventional vines as organic starting 2022

The exception has become the rule. Due to the lack of organic vine plants in France, organic winegrowers use young vines sourced from conventional (...)
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Wednesday October 28 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
To avoid buying second-rate steel, buyers should ask for steel material certificates.

Lockdown pushes up prices of vine posts

Manufacturers of vine posts have been confronted with soaring steel prices. “The situation changes every month. For October, the increase (...)
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Wednesday October 21 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Some winegrowers only need to organise their traceability issues before they can be audited, whereas others still have to invest in controlled spraying equipment or set up washing areas.

Cognac has big ambitions for its environmental footprint

From just 13 last year, the number of farms boasting Cognac environmental certification has risen to 149 and in ten years’ time, will (...)
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Wednesday October 14 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
As a consequence of an early vintage, by “the end of September, the bulk of the crop had been harvested and only a minority of late-ripening areas were left”, said the Ministry of Agriculture.

Lower Champagne yields bring down French crop estimates

On 1 October 2020, the French wine harvest was estimated at 44.1 million hectolitres according to the latest report by the Statistics and (...)
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Tuesday October 06 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
850 hectares could be treated by UAV in the northern Côtes du Rhône, Beaujolais and Savoy regions. The technique is also attracting interest in Alsace.

The French wine industry has a year to convince the authorities that it should be allowed to spray by drone

"Despite the density of the foliage, the drone reined in downy and powdery mildew well”, says Amandine Fauriat, an adviser with (...)
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Tuesday July 28 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Château d'Yquem has had a weather station for 140 years and has never recorded higher levels of rainfall between April and May than in 2020.

Château d'Yquem certified organic by 2022

Announced as a matter of course on May 13, 2019 by Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, the switch-over to organic farming at Château d'Yquem (...)
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Monday July 27 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
The neighbour has admitted to firing the shots

Provence winegrower shot at with a rifle for spraying by night

“Today it’s a tank, tomorrow it’ll be someone’s head”, warned Laurent Grimaud, secretary general of the Var (...)
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Tuesday July 21 2020 - Vine growing by Vitisphere
Veraison will soon be with us, bringing relief for winegrowers.

After many months of disease pressure, France’s vineyards are now in fine fettle again

In the very early-ripening areas, the first clusters showed signs of veraison around July 5. Everywhere else, the cluster closure stage is (...)
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