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The BIVB officially approved the wine tourism projects in December 2016 but they have been in the planning process since 2010.

Friday July 09 2021

Burgundy’s wine centres reveal their funding, and visitor targets

As the first foundation stones are being laid, the three Burgundy wine and ‘climat’ centres are reviewing their respective progress
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Tickets are on sale at €16 per adult and €8.5 per child aged 6 and over.

Thursday June 10 2021

10,000-visitor target for 2021 at Pressoria, the Champagne wine interpretation centre

Initially scheduled for Easter, the official opening of Pressoria, the Champagne Wine Centre for Sensory Interpretation, will take place on (...)
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From Sauternes to Libourne, tourism projects are currently burgeoning in Bordeaux.

Thursday January 28 2021

AOC Bordeaux invests €4 million to re-launch its tourism facilities

Halfway between the Cité du Vin in the centre of Bordeaux and the UNESCO-listed vineyards of Saint-Émilion, the tourist centre of Planète (...)
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Traditionally held every first weekend in February, the Percée du Vin Jaune could also take place on the second weekend in February so as not to overlap with the Transjurassienne cross-country skiing event.

Wednesday September 30 2020

The Percée du Vin Jaune festival postponed until 2022, and revisited

At a meeting on September 23, the board of the Vin Jaune Ambassadors’ Association voted to postpone the twenty-fourth Percée du Vin (...)
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The Beijing Wine Museum covers 18,000 m². It will include a 6,700 m² permanent exhibition area with temporary exhibitions, an auditorium, multi-sensory exhibits, a wine cellar, a gourmet restaurant and a wine school.

Monday February 10 2020

The Universal Wine Museum due to open in Beijing at the end of 2021

Bordeaux’s Cité du Vin is working with Weixing Tang on the creation of a wine museum in Beijing. The avowed aim, as specified by the (...)
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Plans for the future Burgundy ‘Cité des vins et des climats’ which will be built in Beaune starting 2020

Friday November 15 2019

Plans for a ‘Cité des vins et des climats’ in Beaune unveiled

Plans selected by the Beaune (Côte d'Or) town council for the future ‘Cité des vins et des climats’ were recently unveiled. (...)
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The Paris event will provide visitors with a venue for learning more about Champagne, including a dance show and the obligatory tasting.

Wednesday October 23 2019

Champagne announces a major new wine culture event for 2020

From 3 to 7 June 2020, the Trocadero gardens will host “Le Champagne aime Paris”, or “Champagne loves Paris”, a 6,000 (...)
Monday July 01 2019 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Fun escape game events offer an opportunity to provide players with technical information, in this case on the grape varieties of South-West France.

The trend for winegrowers’ escape games continues to gain traction

As the tourist season gets underway, escape games are spreading across France’s wine regions. From the pop-up riddle game at Domaine (...)
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Friday April 05 2019 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Maxime Toubart, chairman of the Champagne winegrowers’ organisation, signs the white paper on wine tourism in Champagne under the watchful eye of Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, chairman of the Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars – Unesco World Heritage mission.

Champagne structures its wine tourism activities

“Wine tourism is a priority and a challenge”, summed up Maxime Toubart, chairman of the Champagne winegrowers’ organisation (...)
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Tuesday April 02 2019 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Nicolas Ponzo, director of the Roussillon wine marketing board (left), and Philippe Bourrier, board chairman, at the press conference on 25 March in Paris.

Perpignan prepares to celebrate wine

Designated 2019 European Wine City, Perpignan, located in the heart of the Roussillon wine region in the South of France, has just presented (...)
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Monday March 18 2019 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
“Under certain conditions, wine tourism can become a key aspect of the tourism industry over the coming years”, said Hervé Novelli on 12 March at Hangar 14 in Bordeaux.

French wine tourism heads towards quality hierarchy

Hervé Novelli, the chairman of the Higher Council for Wine Tourism (CSŒ), is in a race against time. “No wine region in the world has (...)
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Friday January 18 2019 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Access to the permanent visit costs 20 euros for an adult, and 9 euros for a child aged 6 to 17 years old, where wine tasting is replaced by grape juice.

A drop of 5% in visitor numbers at the Cité du Vin in 2018

After welcoming 421,000 visitors in 2018, “the Cité du Vin de Bordeaux has maintained its appeal despite an unstable national climate, (...)
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Monday November 26 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
As more and more properties become home to works of art, the challenge now is to stage them in a fun way.

Château Smith Haut Lafitte’s artistic forest wins award

From listening to the ‘song’ of the woods to touching the moss on the trunks, Château Smith Haut Lafitte’s ‘forest (...)
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Tuesday September 11 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
The Ampelograf game offers an introduction to vine growing and wine.

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 (...)
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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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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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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 May 30 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
In 2017, festivities for Unesco’s listing of the Burgundy ‘climats’ took place at Château de Meursault.

Burgundy celebrates its Climats for a month

More than 70 events have been scheduled for this year’s ‘Climat Month’ including exhibitions, walks through the vineyards, (...)
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Friday April 27 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere
Beaujolais has secured global recognition for its rich geological heritage.

Beaujolais awarded Unesco World Geopark certification

After the Haute-Provence area, the Luberon, the Massif des Bauges, the Chablais, the Monts d'Ardèche and the Causses du Quercy, it is (...)
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Wednesday January 03 2018 - wine Tourism by Vitisphere

Pacherenc de Saint-Sylvestre –2017 ends with a torch-lit harvest

The ultimate benchmark for late harvest wines, the New Year’s grape harvest in Gers has not only become a tradition but also a high (...)
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