Actualités de la filière Vigne et Vin
2 days ago · C'est la loi de la jongle. Ce millésime 2024 est décidément riche en escadrilles d’emmerdes frappant la filière vin, qui doit déjà jongler avec suffisamment de difficultés économiques et climatiques pour voir avec horreur se rouvrir les menaces géopolitiques aux États-Unis avec la deuxième présidence de Donald Trump commençant en janvier 2025.
2022 - a great, sun-blessed vintage for Bordeaux - Vitisphere
Sep 20, 2022 · t’s back to the future for Bordeaux red wines. After 2021 was defined by balance and levels of ripeness that harked back to the last century, the 2022 vintage bears the stamp of a series of heat waves illustrating the reality of climate change. “ It's interesting to see that the two can go hand in hand: a window on the past and a glimpse of ...
Nearly 10% of Champagne vineyards are organic
Mar 6, 2024 · We are delighted with the development of the organic industry in Champagne”, claimed Jérôme Bourgeois, chairman of the organic Champagne association ACB at its AGM on 16 February.“When I started out in 2009, organic vineyards accounted for 1% of acreage.Now we’re about to reach the 10% mark!” Although the 2021 harvest, which was decimated by mildew, led 19 growers to back track on ...
How French winegrowers are breathing new life into ... - Vitisphere
May 11, 2022 · Around twenty grape varieties cover 90% of vineyard acreage in France, compared with 400 French grape varieties kept at the INRAe vineyard conservation collection at Domaine de Vassal near Montpellier in the South of France. 200 of these are listed in the official catalogue and are therefore eligible to be grown”, stressed Olivier Yobregat, head of plant material at the IFV's South-Western ...
Innovative vineyards do not always equate to good ideas for the …
Oct 31, 2024 · n her bid to hunt down “things that seem like a good idea but aren’t”, Sophie Penavayre and her colleagues at the Beaujolais branch of the French vine and wine institute (IFV), have calculated the environmental footprint of several “innovative” practices using life-cycle analyses (LCA). Speaking at the OIV convention in Dijon on October 16, she used the use of hail nets as an example.
“You cannot be a profitable company in the mass wine ... - Vitisphere
Jul 24, 2024 · You can no longer be a profitable company in the mass wine market without reaching a critical size. Global wine exports have been declining since 2017, with the disappearance of the Chinese mirage – wine consumption in China peaked in 2012 and has been reduced threefold since then. The global market has lost 4 billion bottles in sales since ...
Lack of water in the South of France creates life or death situation ...
Sep 13, 2023 · In Pyrenees-Orientales and the coastline of Aude and Hérault, there has been a shortage of water for 17 months. The vineyards are beginning to die, some vines won’t survive the autumn. The defining feature of the 2023 vintage is this disaster. The time has come to act to prevent weather hazards such as frost and hail, and control water.
Champagne houses use social media to move upmarket - Vitisphere
Dec 22, 2023 · Champagne houses use social media to move upmarket. owine, the French marketing and communications agency focusing on wine, has analysed the annual performances of over 150 Champagne houses and estates on social media using an index enabling it to collect over 10 million items of data from November 2022 to November 2023. Facebook, X (formerly ...
How one Champagne house is helping its winegrowers transition to …
Jan 7, 2022 · On December 10, Vranken-Pommery Champagnes, the Avize Viti Campus college and the Seine-Normandy water agency signed a partnership agreement aimed at
Cognac gets three new resistant vine varieties - Vitisphere
Jan 18, 2023 · A. t its AGM on 15 December, the Cognac winegrowers’ organisation asked the National Institute for Origin and Quality (INAO) to add three ‘varieties of interest for adaptation’ (abbreviated as ‘Vifa’) to its specifications. These include Vidal and the lesser-known varieties Coutia and Luminan, all of which were registered in the ...