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Culture and Wine
The tutored tasting was held in the K amphitheatre of the ULB Solbosch campus in Ixelles, Brussels, and a fee (€10/student) was charged.

Monday December 17 2018

The world's largest tutored wine tasting attracts 309 students

Breaking a record is worth cracking open a bottle of Champagne. 309 students from the Inter Wine & Dine School of Oenology (IWD) and the
Wine and Health
Pierre-Louis Teissedre, professor at the ISVV in Bordeaux, is highly critical of the Lancet's article which stated that there is no such thing as beneficial alcohol consumption.

Wednesday December 05 2018

The French wine industry takes the Lancet to task for its health study

On November 28th in Paris, the association Vin et Société went back over the Lancet study on alcohol and health published at the end of August. (...)
Culture and Wine
The Cité du Vin, with its unique circular architectural design, provides a permanent immersive, sensorial and interactive wine-themed journey, with workshops on wine culture, a cellar stocked with wines from all over the world, numerous shows, concerts and debates.

Wednesday September 05 2018

Breton visitor becomes the millionth to visit the Cité du Vin

"A total of no fewer than 176 nationalities came to discover the cultures and civilisations of wine: 70% French and 30% foreigners, with (...)
Culture and Wine
Announced on July 1, the awards will be presented on October 17 at the Senate in Paris.

Monday July 16 2018

Œnovidéo awards documentary on Spanish natural wine

Combining cinema and wine, the twenty-fifth Œnovideo festival has just awarded its top prize to the Spanish film Fermentación Espontánea, (...)
Culture and Wine
The sealed bottles have no label. Buyers will be given one at the end of the auction.

Tuesday May 22 2018

Three wines harvested under Louis XV and sold under Emmanuel Macron

With their original patina of dust, the 115 lots put up for auction on Saturday 26 May by Jura Enchère encapsulate the history of Franche-Comté. (...)
Culture and Wine
The new Rosé day logo.

Wednesday April 11 2018

First International Rosé Day launched

Valérie Rousselle, owner of Châteaux Roubine and Sainte-Béatrice (Lorgues, Var), has launched ‘International Rosé Day’ with the (...)
Wine and Health
Representing a pregnant woman with a glass in her hand, the red strikethrough logo has been mandatory on bottles of alcoholic beverages sold in France since 2007.

Thursday April 05 2018

The pregnant woman logo on bottles will be enlarged in 2019

To “improve exposure of the health statement "zero alcohol during pregnancy" on containers of alcoholic drinks", the (...)
Thursday March 29 2018 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere
Jean-Luc Barbier, former Director of the CIVC and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the UNESCO Mission, Amandine Crépin, Director of the Mission, Sébastien Eugène, Mayor of Château-Thierry and Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, CEO of Taittinger Champagnes and Chairman of the UNESCO Mission.

Unesco mission ramps up activities

On 22 March, Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, chairman of the Mission Unesco des Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne association, presented (...)
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Thursday November 30 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Cité du Vin centres due to open in Burgundy in 2020 and 2021

 “The countdown has started”, announced the Burgundy wine marketing board BIVB in a press statement, referring to the future (...)
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Monday November 27 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Two new signatures for Mouton Rothschild 2015

“The result of a process that is both random and carefully prepared”, is how Baron Philippe de Rothschild describes Gerhard Richter’s (...)
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Friday November 17 2017 - Wine and Health by Vitisphere

Labelling the topic of debate at CEVI’s 15th anniversary

In public, relations are more than cordial. Behind the scenes, they are tense. The feeling was obvious at the reception organised on November (...)
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Friday August 11 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Returning to the birthplace of wine growing at the Cité du Vin

As guest of honour, the “world’s oldest wine region” is showing Bordeaux visitors evidence of the first known traces of wine growing, dating (...)
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Thursday August 10 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

First Unesco listed growth for the producers’ organisation

The vineyard, set on a bastion of Vauban’s famous monument, has become a promotional tool and tourist attraction in its own right. (...)
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Tuesday August 01 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

“Music and wine are made for each other”

Jazz pianist Yaron Herman will be giving his rendition of Château Angélus at a sold-out performance during the Saint-Emilion Jazz Festival. For (...)
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Monday April 17 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Rhone Valley: How the new visitors’ centre got sucked into a construction quagmire

It all began in 2014, during Christian Paly’s tenure as chairman of the Rhone Valley marketing board. Architect Jean-Marie Renaud, who (...)
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Monday January 23 2017 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Bordeaux-China: Saint-Emilion wines officially open their exhibition at the Pu’Er tea museum

Close connections between wine and tea civilisations have brought together the towns of Libourne, capital of the Saint-Emilion wine region, (...)
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Sunday December 18 2016 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Hospices de Beaune: 8.4 million euros raised at auction in 2016

Film director Claude Lelouch, actresses Virginie Ledoyen – patron of the Coeur et Recherche association – and Valérie Bonneton, (...)
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Tuesday September 13 2016 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Pic Saint Loup: Hail wipes out a large chunk of the 2016 crop

A hailstorm that started out in Corconne in the north of the area and swept as far south as Montpellier devastated Pic Saint Loup vineyards (...)
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Thursday July 28 2016 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Bordeaux: 40,000 visitors flock to the Cité du Vin during its first month of opening

Officially opened by the French president on May 31 then opened to the public on June 1, the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux proved to be extremely (...)
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Tuesday May 03 2016 - Culture and Wine by Vitisphere

Malbec Day: Cahors asks the Argentineans to work as a team

Since 2011, Wines of Argentina has celebrated April 17, 1853, the date when a draft bill was submitted for the establishment of a wine Quinta, (...)
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