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The start-up Raisin was co-founded by Jean-Hugues Bretin, who has just joined WineTech.

Tuesday October 16 2018

Raisin, the app listing 3,000 natural wine bars worldwide

Tasking itself with enabling users to “drink natural wine across the globe”, the start-up Raisin describes itself as the "only
Market conditions
Following a series of short crops since 2013, Burgundy wine prices had reached high levels. The return to average volumes heralds a downward readjustment.

Thursday October 11 2018

Prices of bulk wines reported to be falling in Burgundy

Burgundy is expecting a good harvest, a “bumper harvest” even. Such significant volumes are bound to encourage buyers on the bulk (...)
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Tuesday October 09 2018

Wanderlust

How new technologies are revolutionising wine distribution

Richard Ellison explains how newcomer Wanderlust differs from existing e-tailer models. (...)
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Eight Médoc appellations (Médoc, Haut-Médoc, Margaux, Moulis-en-Médoc, Listrac-Médoc, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, and Saint Estèphe) are eligible for the Crus Bourgeois labelling statement

Thursday October 04 2018

Key figures from the ninth, and penultimate, Crus Bourgeois selection

270 châteaux will be eligible for the ‘Crus Bourgeois du Médoc’ endorsement for the 2016 vintage. This equates to 33 million stamped (...)
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Over the summer of 2018, Proseccos accounted for 13% of C10’s sparkling wine sales (compared to 7% for Cavas).

Monday October 01 2018

Sparkling wine sales surge on the back of France’s World Cup victory

Sunny weather and France’s triumph in the World Cup final combined to make the summer particularly festive in French cafés, bars and (...)
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“The poor 2017 harvest is starting to weigh on our shipments,” summed up Antoine Leccia.

Monday September 17 2018

France’s small 2017 crop starts to impact exports

Over the first six months of 2018, France exported 6.16 million hectolitres of wine worth €4.2 billion. The figures translate to respective (...)
wine Tourism
The Ampelograf game offers an introduction to vine growing and wine.

Tuesday September 11 2018

The app that wine-loving parents will adore

Launched in July 2018, the Ampelograf mobile app features Ludivine, a young girl who aims to become an ampelographer. The heroine guides the (...)
Monday September 10 2018 - distribution by Vitisphere
The event was organised at the request of Sonoma County Vintners, which represents 200 Californian estates.

Vinexpo Explorer invites 70 buyers to California

70 cherry-picked international buyers have been invited by Vinexpo to take part in its second Explorer event from 23 to 25 September in the (...)
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Friday September 07 2018 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
According to estimates by the Languedoc-Roussillon co-operative wineries, the region’s wine supplies are at their lowest level in six years.

2018 wine supplies at their lowest level in 6 years

17.8 million hectolitres is the estimated supply of wine in Languedoc-Roussillon according to Coop de France Occitanie. This is the lowest (...)
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Thursday September 06 2018 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
Champagne shipments plateaud in the first half of 2018.

Champagne sales plateaud in the first half of the year

Over the first half of the year to the end of June 2018, Champagne sales plateaud, showing a marginal decline of 0.9% with shipments of 112.9 (...)
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Thursday July 19 2018 - marketing by Vitisphere
The AGM on 12 July was a studious event, marked by the prospect of a bountiful crop. 'This year is so strange because it seems so simple... There are no diseases and fruit set looks good. All the lights are green', said a delighted Dominique Piron.

Bienvenue en Beaujonomie and Vinexpo Explorer touted as catalysts for change

"Beaujolais has lacked projects for years. Something is now happening, our recovery program is well and truly underway," said a (...)
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Thursday July 12 2018 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
Philippe Pellaton, on the microphone, was re-elected in December 2017 for an additional 3 years.

Inventories tided Rhone Valley over after small 2017 crop

The 2017-2018 Côtes-du-Rhône regional appellation sales campaign was marked by a short crop last year, dropping from 1.47 million to 1.17 (...)
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Tuesday July 10 2018 - marketing by Vitisphere
During the marketing board’s AGM, François Labet stressed his attachment to better promoting regional appellations in France.

Burgundy wine marketing board to nurture accessible wines

Burgundy is embarking on a new project aimed at promoting its small appellations, aka the regional appellations with geographical designations (...)
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Thursday July 05 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
The elected representatives who attended the official opening of the Château le Bouïs wine tourism centre on 25 June 2018.

Grand official opening for Château le Bouïs’ wine tourism centre

“You cannot invent wine tourism. You have to invest a lot to pass muster. This is where the future lies, but it has to be done properly”, (...)
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Wednesday July 04 2018 - distribution by Vitisphere
To mark the launch, GS1 organised a major conference in Paris on June 19 which it said was attended by 150 participants.

GS1 offers a standard digital label for wines

Renamed ‘digital cellar’ for the occasion, the CodeOnline.fr website is now open to wines and spirits. Based on the principle (...)
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Friday June 29 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Although often cloudy, the skies of Gironde were relatively kind to revellers during the wine festival

Bordeaux Fête le Vin breaks new record, serving 520,000 glasses of wine

For its 20th anniversary, Bordeaux Fête le Vin set a series of records: "In four days, more than 61,000 tasting passes were sold, more (...)
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Thursday June 28 2018 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
The Coteaux Varois en Provence appellation covers 28 localities in Var with 2,700 ha of bearing vines. A review of its boundaries in 2017 increased hectareage to 2,900.

Coteaux Varois en Provence: “An appellation that has carved a place for itself in the Provence rosé range”

"Originally, this young, small appellation area suffered from a lack of image and notoriety and was slightly lagging behind its two sister (...)
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Wednesday June 20 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
The Carré du Palais in Avignon.

With €700,000 of debts, the Carré du Palais goes into receivership

The Rhone Valley wine showcase, Carré du Palais, has suffered yet another blow. Just a year after its opening in the premises of the former (...)
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Wednesday June 13 2018 - Market conditions by Vitisphere
“Consumers attach less importance to the container and are willing to buy wine in boxes to take advantage of more attractive prices' say experts at Business France.

Everything you've always wanted to know about boxed wine figures (but couldn’t ask)

Until recently, figures for wines marketed in boxes were subsumed into the bulk wine category. Now, global trade in boxed wines can be closely (...)
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Thursday June 07 2018 - distribution by Vitisphere
The average buyer on Alibaba is female (70% of users), aged between 18 and 29 years old (45%) and interested in a healthy lifestyle (30%).

TMall unveils the technologies of a futuristic wine merchant

In the age of online wine shopping and social media, the ten million Hong Kong dollar question is: what will the wine merchants of the future (...)
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