![]() Storm in a teacup or legitimate debate? Marlborough opens research center ![]() If one doesn't want to be mocked by comics, one shouldn't be in the public domain. ![]() "Being a big defender of the right to satire, I have no objection to be on the receiving end. ![]() "Many of you passed on Gaspard Proust's piece about me ," Clément wrote on Twitter. The haranguing made it onto social media and, to be fair, Clément took it with good grace. "No, Hugo will want to oil our eyes by whining about the disappearance of a family of bears in the Napa Valley fires," he added. Oh really? The sale of spirits has never been so good," he continues, accusing his opposite number of being a "soy-bean Tintin" and pointing out, with regard to frost pots, "that the winegrower could lose a year's work, he wouldn't give a damn". "He proclaims that consumers want wine with low alcohol. After mockingly pointing out that Clément announces "We're here in Côte Rôtie" – while the cameras are filming harvesters in Condrieu – Proust didn't let go. Under scrutiny were alcohol levels in wines and even a questioning look at the pots used in vineyards to protect vines from frost (but which burn considerable amounts of fossil fuels).Ĭue indignation from French satirist Gaspard Proust in a column in the Journal du Dimanche weekly last Sunday (25 September). Let's start at the beginning: French TV presenter Hugo Clément headed-up a program aired on Monday 19 September (entitled "Red Alert on Wine") that covered a series of questions around wine production and their link to global warming. Lastly, is the adoption and support of the Italian wine industry's sustainability certification programme, introduced in March this year.Ī fair bit, then, for Italy's first female prime minister to attend to. Third on the agenda is "health and wine", in particular singling out the defence of wine in the face of the EU's anti-cancer "Beating Cancer Plan", parts of which are focusing on the consumption of wine and its negative health effects. Secondly, the UIV is requesting more support (again, broadly read this as a request for more financial aid) in overseas markets. This is a broad topic with many offshoots including: dealing with overproduction in certain areas "strengthening" of the IGP/DOCs (likely shorthand requesting more financial support) and, perhaps most interestingly (if you're that way inclined), the likely consolidation/amalgamation of broader appellations and regional titles whose production is relatively low. Italy's national wine trade body, the Italian Wine Union (UIV), has spelled out its priorities for the incoming center-right coalition government, likely to be headed by Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party.Īccording to Italian wine news website WineNews.It the UIV's proposed revisions cover four broad areas.įirst up: the reorganization of the appellations system across the country. Italian wine industry priorities for new government "After having expanded, modernised and touched-up his Saint-Emilion property, Frédéric Stévenin is looking to develop Châteaux de Vieux Maillet and de Lussac in the same manner," said a press release from the Stévenin family. According to French wine news website,, the pair had acquired the properties in the 2000s. Pomerol's Château Vieux Maillet and Château de Lussac ( Lussac-Saint-Emilion) also reportedly changed hands this week, with the Stévenin family (who already own the 25-hectare Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Château de Saint Pey) snapping them up from previous owners Griet Van Malderen and Hervé Laviale. While several stories this week detailed the sale of Château Peyrabon in the Haut-Médoc (snapped up via a holding company by the well-known Castéja négoce family of Château Batailley, just further east in Pauillac) there was movement too on Bordeaux's Right Bank. Here, though, is the other news you might have missed this week. The news of the founding of the Bordeaux Pirates union also began to do the rounds, highlighting the initiative to promote "alternative and innovative winemakers" in the region, spearheaded by Jean-Baptiste Duquesne from Château Cazebonne in the Graves. Port house Kopke declared the 2020 vintage (a little late to the party as Taylor's, Quinta do Noval and Sogevinus, Kopke's umbrella group, had already declared vintages six months ago) and took the opportunity to launch its new, 50-Year-Old Tawny and 50-Year-Old White Ports. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities look to have busted the country's biggest wine smuggling ring which, according to Chinese wine website Vino-Joy, amounts to 368 million Chinese Yuan (US$52 million) worth of smuggled wines and reportedly involves an unnamed Bordeaux merchant. © Tourisme-Médoc | The Haut-Médoc estate Château Peyrabon was one of three Bordeaux properties to change hands this week.įirst up, the organisers of the biennial Bordeaux Wine Festival announced the event would now take place annually.
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