Vineyard

Adèle and Elsa Matrot have been at the helm of their eponymous estate for about ten years. Nestled in the heart of Meursault, the estate was passed down from their parents—a true family story that lives on through the way they craft their wines. It is Adèle and Elsa who now hold the delicate responsibility […]

Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the Balkans are emerging on the European wine scene. A fresh wind of technical mastery is reviving millennia-old traditions. A young country with a long history of shifting borders, Romania is rediscovering its prestigious past. Terroirs influenced by multiple cultures, documented since antiquity, once f [...]

With the grape harvest now completed in most French wine regions, initial reports from wine industry professionals suggest that excellent vintages are on the horizon. This optimism comes despite a year marked by numerous extreme weather events, including late frosts, hailstorms, heatwaves, drought, and water stress*.   « A Solar Year Full of Promis [...]

As the grape harvest season is in full swing across many regions, take advantage of the weekend of September 17–18 to (re)discover the treasures of France’s rich wine heritage. To give you a glimpse of the many activities available on September 17 and 18, here is a non-exhaustive list of vineyard tours and cultural sites […]

The Menetou-Salon vineyard is located in the Cher department, between Bourges and Sancerre, in a wine-growing region where the presence of vines has been attested since Antiquity. The first historical mentions date back to the 11th century. These are acts relating to donations of vines, in particular to the Clos de Davet, made to various […]

Already in Your Glasses!   As every year, primeur wines will be available for sale starting from the third Thursday of November, which this year falls on November 18. This date serves as an exciting gateway to the new vintage, celebrated in a spirit of conviviality.    The most famous of these wines, Beaujolais Nouveau, […]

In the heart of France, on the banks of the Loire river, stands the famous Sancerre vineyard.   Recognized for its Sauvignon Blanc, the reputation of the wines of Sancerre has been well established for many centuries … In fact, traces of vine culture can be found in Sancerre since Antiquity.   In 582, Grégoire […]

The Jury of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), which met in Paris on September 9, 2021, this year awarded 16 Prizes and 10 Special Mentions from around sixty publications in competition.   Today, we are very proud to announce that the work “Le Chêne en majesté, de la forêt au vin”, written […]

A narrow strip of land extending over some thirty kilometers on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Lavaux vineyard (canton of Vaud) enjoys a particularly favorable climate for the cultivation of vines which has prompted men to shape its slopes. steep. The exceptional character of this wine-growing landscape was recognized in 2007 by the inscription […]

We can attest proof of wine growing in the region of Chablis since the high Middle Ages. The Cistercians, who founded the Abbey of Pontigny in 1114 and subsequently stood up a cellar called the Petit Pontigny in Chablis, developed the vineyard and made it prosper thanks, in particular, to the relatively close Parisian market […]

The Campania, located in the south part of the Italian peninsyla, is a region in which viticulture has been found and documented since Antiquity, thanks to the texts of Pliny the Elder (Natural History, Book XIV).   The vineyard of the PDO Asprinio di Aversa (PDO, 1993) have been cultivated haughtily for centuries. This ancestral […]

Agroecology* constitutes a set of practices aimed to conceive production systems differently by oftenly reintroducing into them what once existed. Agroecology is therefore opposed to the model of intensive monoculture which, in the wine sector, results in monoculture vineyards in rows. The ancestral wine-growing practices linked to the tree, whethe [...]