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 […]
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.
From two thousand years of history, the Loire Valley vineyards, the 3rd largest French wine region, is characterized by a great diversity of climates and soils giving birth to a wide variety of wines.
Bordeaux owes its distinction as the first AOC vineyard in France to the great diversity of its high quality terroirs. There is in this wide range of fine wines something to delight all lovers, for all occasions and in a wide range of prices.
For oenology lovers, the richness of the wine is above all the diversity of the different grape varieties, white or red, and the specificities of the regions where the grapes flourish. The appellations are the literal translation of this complex universe, which combines the contribution of the vine, the influence of the terroir and the work of the winemaker.
