“Vineyards history” is a series of articles detailing the history of vineyards in France and all around the world. Tannay vineyards have existed for centuries and acquired its reputation during Middle Ages. At that time, wines from Tannay were sent to Paris by the river Yonne. In his book Statistiques de l’arrondissement de Clamecy […]
“Vineyard and cellar – 1910” is a series of articles that we present to you throughout the year 2020, month by month. The articles are taken from the 1910 “Wine Trade Directory” and describe the various works necessary for the grapes and wine production at the beginning of the 20th century. During the month […]
Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. This intentional combination of agriculture and forestry has varied benefits, including increased biodiversity and reduced erosion. This land use mangement is attested since the Antiquity in viticulture as we can read it in Pliny’s […]
“Vineyard and cellar works – 1910” is a serie of articles that will be presented to you throughout the year 2020, month by month. The articles are taken from the « 1910 Wine Trade Directory » and describe the various works necessary for the grapes and wine production at the begining of the 20th century. During […]
“Vineyards history” is a series of articles detailing the history of vineyards in France and all around the world. As so often in vineyards history, La Charité-sur-Loire vineyards was developed under religious communities inspiration during Middle Ages. La Charité-sur-Loire vineyards reached its peak in the nineteenth century. In 1788, vines covered a surface […]
The presence of vines is attested in the Nièvre since the Gallo-Roman era. But the Nièvre viticulture, as many other vineyards, truly flourished in the Middle Ages thanks to the religious Orders. Nièvre vineyards are mainly located along the Loire and today cover around 1.500 hectares (Pouilly-sur-Loire and Pouilly Fumé : 1.240 hectares ; Coteaux du […]
Confronted with adverse climatic conditions and sterile soils on the surface, the inhabitants of the volcanic island of Lanzarote have developed an ingenious vine growing system that made it possible to overcome the lack of rainfall nearly 300 years ago.
The Beaujolais vineyard covers 17,324 hectares and runs along a strip of 10 to 15 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long, from Mâcon in the north to Lyon in the south, on the hilly slopes of the Beaujolais mountains which reach an altitude of 700 to over 1000 m.
The vines begin to budge. Depending on the region, the stages oscillate between “swelling of the buds” and “two spread leaves”.
The vineyard of Languedoc runs along the Mediterranean Sea, from Nîmes to the lake of Leucate. It leans inland on the foothills of the Cevennes, the Black Mountain and will nestle to the feet of the eastern Pyrenees.
