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<title><![CDATA[Less Bling Bling And More Value]]></title>
<link>http://wineability.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/less-bling-bling-and-more-value/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two months after VINEXPO 2009, what is the outcome? Less exhibitors and less visitors but the world ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Two months after VINEXPO 2009, what is the outcome? Less exhibitors and less visitors but the world largest international wine trade show has set the tempo for the months to come. Sales are eroding and competition is fierce. The time of conspicuous consumption is fading away to make room for product credentials. A more objective, based on real product and quality focused consumers are driving sales even in this economic recession.  It feels that business is harder but in reality it makes things better for companies that have continuously been focused on value.  Frivolous costs have been slashed, less people, less margins, less frills, streamlining and lean businesses are still making ends meet.  Staying fit, survival of the fittest means refocusing strategies and tactics on short term objectives and staying closer to existing customers.  More than ever, greater efforts are centering on the making of the products and what it is made of, but also on offering competitive pricing for quality goods.</p>
<p>The trade is pressured to offer low prices, in many ways prices have bounced back to prices prior to 2000.  Is this economic downturn a problem for long-term brand equity? It depends. Mostly, this slow-down is affecting premium brands that had benefitted from the sales bubbles and increased their prices without real upgrades. In fact, this recession is generating many opportunities for new brands or existing brands with minimal marketing resources but tangible product credentials.  Now, it is the time for brands to start leveraging consumer value.  In a way, I hope this situation lasts for a while for consumers to develop enduring behaviors to shop smarter. “Less bling bling and more value”.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Contempt: Italissima "big mess" at Vinexpo in Bordeaux]]></title>
<link>http://dobianchi.com/2009/06/29/contempt-italissima-big-mess-at-vinexpo-in-bordeaux/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Do Bianchi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dobianchi.com/2009/06/29/contempt-italissima-big-mess-at-vinexpo-in-bordeaux/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Above: Produced by Carlo Ponti, Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s 1963 Contempt, based on Alberto Moravia]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><img src="http://www.jeremyparzen.com/img/contempt.jpg"></p>
<p><em>Above: Produced by <strong>Carlo Ponti</strong>, <strong>Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s</strong> 1963 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_(film)"><strong>Contempt</strong></a>, based on <strong>Alberto Moravia&#8217;s</strong> novel, Il Disprezzo, was an Italian and French co-production. The results were decidedly better than last week&#8217;s Italissima at Vinexpo in Bordeaux.</em></p>
<p>It would have been enough that <a href="http://vinoalvino.org/blog/2009/06/italissima-a-vinexpo-ma-e-proprio-la-vera-la-migliore-italia-del-vino.html"><strong>Franco rightly chastised</strong></a> his French counterpart and longtime sparring partner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bettane"><strong>Michel Bettane</strong></a> for the selection of Bordeaux-inspired Italian wines to be presented in Bettane&#8217;s seminars at last week&#8217;s <a href="http://www.italissima.info/"><strong>Italissima</strong></a>, a would-be Italian wine fair held in Bordeaux in conjunction with but with no official affiliation to <a href="http://www.vinexpo.com/fr/index/"><strong>Vinexpo</strong></a>, the annual see-and-be-seen French wine trade fair.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.jeremyparzen.com/img/contempt2.jpg" align="left">“Instead of calling it, ‘Italissima, the Italy that you love,’&#8221; wrote Franco, &#8220;they should have called it ‘Italissima, the Italy that they love,” where the ‘they’ stands for presumptuous French critics who do not know the real Italy of wine. In fact, they don’t understand it at all and they wouldn’t understand even if they seriously tried to study it…”</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t the French be offended, asked one commenter to Franco&#8217;s post rhetorically, if Italians were to present French wines made with Italian varieties as authentically French?</p>
<p>But making matters worse was a slew of reports and blog posts about how Italissima participants were left sadly disappointed by lackluster turnout and poor organization. One Italian blogger called it a <a href="http://blog.acquabuona.it/2009/06/percezioni-letto-visto-ascoltato/pasticciaccio-brutto-per-litalia-a-vinexpo"><strong><em>pasticciaccio brutto</em></strong></a>, borrowing from the title of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Emilio_Gadda"><strong>Gadda&#8217;s</strong></a> 1957 novel <em>Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulano</em> written in Roman dialect (<em>That Awful Mess on Via Merulana</em>).</p>
<p>Adding insult to injury, the French daily <a href="http://www.sudouest.com/accueil/actualite/vinexpo/article/628521/mil/4695786.html"><em><strong>Sud Ouest</strong></em></a> called the event the &#8220;pavillion de la discorde,&#8221; a &#8220;monster,&#8221; and a case of &#8220;parasitism,&#8221; where the organizers were trying illicitly trying to piggy back on the exposure of Vinexpo just 200 meters down the road.</p>
<p>There was an even <a href="http://www.decanter.com/news/285010.html?aff=rss"><strong>a report</strong></a> of wine destined for Italissima being hidden by Vinexpo organizers and a claim by the Italissima organizer that she had been attacked by one of the Vinexpo organizers.</p>
<p>Some of the greatest movies ever made were the French and Italian co-productions of the 1960s, like Godard&#8217;s <em>Contempt</em>. Maybe it&#8217;s best if dreamers of French and Italian partnership stick to movie-making.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Back from Vinexpo at Bordeaux - off and in]]></title>
<link>http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/back-from-vinexpo-at-bordeaux-off-and-in/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>IrisLisson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/back-from-vinexpo-at-bordeaux-off-and-in/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Three days of and away to Bordeaux at the beginning of this week &#8211; what a difference from our ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>Three days of and away to Bordeaux</strong> at the beginning of this week &#8211; what a difference from our quiet valley of Lisson. Even if Bordeaux is a small provincial town compared to Paris or London, during VINEXPO, the most famous international wine trade fair pour professional buyers, it takes the air of a big city, with 40 000 visitors from all over the world, who come to see thousands of winemakers, who make their best to find new clients. Just have a look at the photos taken inside Vinexpo, which a <a href="http://boiremanger.canalblog.com/archives/2009/06/26/14207558.html">fellow wine-blogger</a> published two days ago, to see, that they deploy lots of pomp and circumstances, to attract attention and win the war of selling wines.</p>
<div id="attachment_228" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-228" title="car at Vinexpo" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/car-at-vinexpo2.jpg?w=300" alt="Bordeaux wine marketing at Vinexpo photo: Eric Bernardin" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Bordeaux wine marketing at Vinexpo photo: Eric Bernardin</p></div>
<p>When I first saw that photo with the gleaming luxury car, I wondered, whether you would get it as first price of a lottery or if it would be given as an extra bonus to the most successful importer &#8211; but I think, like all the beautiful young girls in uniforms, it was just meant as an eye-catcher &#8211; sex sells, but sport-cars too:-)&#8230;</p>
<p>All around this official place, where black suits and ties are still a majority, even on a hot summer day and where you have to put on your <a href="http://thunevin.blogspot.com/2009/06/time-to-get-smoking-otherwise-nothing.html">smoking</a>, when you are part of the VIP section, invited to one of the even more <a href="http://thunevin.blogspot.com/2009/06/fete-de-la-fleur-at-chateau-dissan-in.html">select evening receptions</a> of the more famous Chteaux of the region.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t attend the official exposition halls, too much noise, too many people, too much choice, too much of everything for me, to be able to taste serenely and appreciate &#8211; I&#8217;ve noticed that often enough during my past years at <a href="http://www.prowein.de/">PROWEIN</a>, the other important European international wine trade fair at <strong>Duesseldorf, </strong>my home town,<strong> in Germany.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_214" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 315px"><img class="size-full wp-image-214" title="Place de la bourse" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/place-de-la-bourse.jpg" alt="Place de la Bourse" width="305" height="229" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Place de la Bourse</p></div>
<p>So I just discovered some of the impressing <strong>19th century buildings</strong> of Bordeaux, which tell the story of it&#8217;s glory &#8211; with big avenues, huge squares, its impressing banks of the Garonne (which I called a river (<strong>riviere</strong>) by asking my way, to learn that this important flow is a <strong>fleuve</strong>).</p>
<div id="attachment_215" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 366px"><img class="size-full wp-image-215" title="Belen" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/belen.jpg" alt="banks of the Garonne" width="356" height="267" /><p class="wp-caption-text">banks of the Garonne</p></div>
<p>But I also discovered the less glamorous off parts of the city, just turning around a corner or following one of the cours a little bit further on from the center.</p>
<div id="attachment_216" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 366px"><img class="size-full wp-image-216" title="quartier populaire" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/quartier-poluaire.jpg" alt="quiet popular square away from the center " width="356" height="267" /><p class="wp-caption-text">quiet popular square away from the center </p></div>
<div id="attachment_218" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 366px"><img class="size-full wp-image-218" title="closed restaurant" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/closed-restaurant1.jpg" alt="closed restaurant in the center" width="356" height="267" /><p class="wp-caption-text">closed restaurant in the center</p></div>
<p>Wine under all its form is omnipresent at Bordeaux, of course. Whether it is as vines as decoration in front of a wine bar or even to sell in a local flower shop (135 Euros &#8211; more expensive than a lot of bottles of wine)</p>
<div id="attachment_219" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 325px"><img class="size-full wp-image-219" title="vine in the midle of Bordeaux" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/vine-in-the-midle-of-bordeaux.jpg" alt="vine in the midle of Bordeaux" width="315" height="420" /><p class="wp-caption-text">vine in the middle of Bordeaux</p></div>
<p>Or if it is the special wine-books area of one of the last and biggest private book shops of France, la<a href="http://www.mollat.com/"> librairie Mollat</a>, where I spend one hour lingering around their international choice of books about all subjects about and around wine.</p>
<div id="attachment_220" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 367px"><img class="size-full wp-image-220" title="librairie Mollat" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/librairie-mollat.jpg" alt="Mollat: biggest independant bookshop in France" width="357" height="190" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Mollat: biggest independant bookshop in France</p></div>
<p>I was allowed to run through the bookshelves and open all the books, without being bothered and even to take some pictures:</p>
<div id="attachment_221" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 366px"><img class="size-full wp-image-221" title="livres vin" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/livres-vin.jpg" alt="wine books at librairie Mollat, Bordeaux" width="356" height="267" /><p class="wp-caption-text">wine books at librairie Mollat, Bordeaux</p></div>
<p>A readers and book collectors dream:-)!</p>
<p>As exciting as my discovery of Bordeaux was my first <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/">couchsurf</a> experience, a volunteer-based worldwide network connecting travelers with members of local communities, who offer free accommodation and/or advice. Learning that there would be no bed at a hotel available under 230 Euros per night and having 3 nights to spend, I looked for an alternative solution &#8211; came across the couchsurfing web-page, dared to write to one of its Bordeaux members, a bit shy, because I could see, that the majority of the members could have easily been my sons or daughters, and was received with so much friendliness and warmth on two couches during my stay, that I immediately became an addict of the system!</p>
<p>Well I have not yet started to tell you about the main reason of my voyage: our first public <strong>OFF meeting </strong>of the <a href="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/wine-meets-web-our-first-winery-blogger-meeting-an-off-during-vinexpo-2009/">European blogging winemakers</a> at <strong>Chteau Luchey Halde</strong> &#8211; I think, I&#8217;ll have to leave that for my next post &#8211; my vines are waiting for me outside&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_223" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 280px"><img class="size-full wp-image-223" title="c est la" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/c-est-la1.jpg" alt="to be continued...soon" width="270" height="360" /><p class="wp-caption-text">to be continued...soon</p></div>
<p>I just can reassure you, that <a href="http://www.decanter.com/news/news.php?id=285010">we didn&#8217;t have any difficulties</a> with the VINEXPO officials &#8211; we were far enough away from their main entrance and perhaps more considered as the usual inoffensive cannibals than as a real commercial concurrency.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo 2009.. END.... Fin.. Fine...]]></title>
<link>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/vinexpo-2009-end-fin-fine/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivo Pagès</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/vinexpo-2009-end-fin-fine/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Se acabo ! Vinexpo 2009 fue interessante. Pudo encuentrar a mis amigos productores del grupo de ]]></description>
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<p>Se acabo ! Vinexpo 2009 fue interessante. Pudo encuentrar a mis amigos productores del grupo de &#8220;viticultores Blogueros&#8221;, personas de los media, amigos productores de por todo nuestro pequeno mundo del vino. Ahora volvere a casa, a ver mis amigos i clientes que eso tambien es la vida !</p>
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<p>The end ! Vinexpo 2009 has been interesting..at least for me. I have met my friends from &#8221; wine blogers&#8221;, people from the press, friends who are producers from around the world. Now back home.. to see the friends and the local customers .</p>
<p>IVO</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo 2009]]></title>
<link>http://euamovinhos.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/vinexpo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>blogygastronomia03</dc:creator>
<guid>http://euamovinhos.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/vinexpo-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Se você é um apaixonado por vinhos tem que ficar de olho nesse evento! Começou ontem, dia 21 de junh]]></description>
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<p>Se você é um apaixonado por vinhos tem que ficar de olho nesse evento!</p>
<p>Começou ontem, dia 21 de junho, em Bordeaux, maior e mais importante região produtora de vinhos da França, a Vinexpo 2009. Esse evento, que acontece em Bordeaux nos anos ímpares e na Ásia nos anos pares, é uma feira internacional de vinhos, uma mostra excepcional para os produtos do mundo inteiro que é visitada por compradores de cada canto do mundo.</p>
<p>Criada em 1981, pela Câmara de Comércio e Indústria de Bordeaux, a Vinexpo se estabeleceu durante muitos anos, como o evento chave para os principais operadores internacionais da indústria das bebidas alcoólicas e do vinho. Nesta edição, a Vinexpo reúne cerca de 2400 expositores de 45 países, dentre eles Espanha, França, Itália. Esta edição do evento ainda conta com 4 novas participações: Madagascar, Bielo Rússia, Suécia e Brasil. A feira contará, além dos expositores, com salas de conferência degustação e restaurantes. É a maior feira de vinhos e bebidas do mundo! A feira que começou neste sábado, dia 21 junho terá uma curta duração, já se encerrando no dia 25 de junho.</p>
<p>Um dos expositores mais renomados que estarão presentes nesse evento é a vinícola Viña Santa Rita da Espanha que produz vinhos como Santa Rita Medalla Real Cabernet Sauvignon2006, vinho tinto complexo, elaborado, com uvas provenientes do Valle de Maipo, área nobre com clima perfeito para produção de uvas Cabernet Sauvignon. Este vinho é capaz de rivalizar com os bons vinhos de Bordeaux.  Você encontra este e outros vinhos da vinícola Santa Rita na Wine! <a href="http://migre.me/2F05">http://migre.me/2F05</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo: D Day...]]></title>
<link>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/vinexpo-d-day/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivo Pagès</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/vinexpo-d-day/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Empieza hoy el Vinexpo en Burdeos&#8230;. Esta manana cata en un Chateau endonde habra un monton de ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Empieza hoy el Vinexpo en Burdeos&#8230;.</p>
<p>Esta manana cata en un Chateau endonde habra un monton de productores de Francia i tambien unos de Italia, Espana &#8230;.</p>
<p>Un par de amigos productores que conosco: Catherine Maisonneuve &#38; Mathieu Cosse <a href="http://leslaquets.com/default.aspx">Les laquets</a>  en Cahors; Elian da Ros; Vacheron en Sancerre; Maréchal en Pommard <a href="http://www.bourgogne-marechal.com/"> Bourgogne Maréchal </a>-  Laurent Cazottes &#8211; Lucie y Stephane Donze &#8220;Chateau Martinat&#8221;  (web :<a href="http://www.chateaumartinat.com/">domicile)</a>  en Bourg-Burdeos.</p>
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<p>Esta tarde&#8230;apuntamientos con clientes y cata en &#8220;<a href="http://www.brasseriebordelaise.fr/">La Brasserie Bordelaise </a>&#8221; en el cientro de Burdeos con Olivier Dauga, &#8220;le faiseur de vins&#8221;.</p>
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<p><strong>IVO</strong></p>
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<link>http://creativille.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/recent-project-bin618/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Steve Hartman</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It was Monday, 9:00 a.m. when the email, &#8220;Import Wine Company,&#8221; came to me. &#8220;[My p]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo 2009 Burdeos..Bordeaux...: Off Festival]]></title>
<link>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/vinexpo-2009-burdeos-bordeaux-off-festival/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivo Pagès</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/vinexpo-2009-burdeos-bordeaux-off-festival/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[1re rencontre des vignerons blogueurs Vinexpo 2009 1st wine bloggers &#8220;off&#8221; meeting Vinex]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><strong>1</strong><strong><sup>re</sup></strong><strong> rencontre des vignerons blogueurs Vinexpo 2009</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>1st wine bloggers &#8220;off&#8221; meeting Vinexpo 2009</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>1 ro Encuentro  viticultores blogueros &#8221;off&#8221; en Vinexpo 2009</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Vous êtes conviés à venir nous rencontrer et déguster S&#8217;Alqueria et les autres vins :</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;">Come meet us, taste my S&#8217;Alqueria and other wines too: </span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Lundi &#8211; <span style="font-weight:normal;">Monday -</span>  Lunes 22 juin -<span style="font-weight:normal;"> June </span>- Junio  2009</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>de 11 à 19 heures &#8211; From 11.00am till 7.00pm - </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>au Château Luchey-Halde </strong><strong>(Mérignac) </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Les vignerons et vigneronnes blogueurs de toute l’Europe passent de l’autre coté de l’écran. Pour la première fois, ils vous invitent à venir déguster leurs vins dans une ambiance conviviale et passionnée.</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;">From all over Europe: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc&#8230;  from the screen to to the tasting table for a direct chat</span> !  </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Los viticultores blogueros de toda Europa pasan al otro lado de la pantalla. Por primera vez, se encuentran con sus lectores para una cata de sus vinos en un ambiente de humanidad y de pasion.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Dégustation “Vins et Toile”</strong></p>
<p>Ils sont français, italiens, portugais, allemands ou américains, jeunes ou expérimentés, vignerons de “Père en Fils” ou reconvertis. Ils cultivent en biologique ou de manière conventionnelle. Pour la plupart, ils se connaissent uniquement à travers leurs blogs. Et pourtant, ces vignerons se réunissent pour la première fois pour une dégustation “Vins &#38; Toile”.</p>
<p><strong>Unis autour d’une même passion</strong></p>
<p>En “off” de Vinexpo, la vingtaine de vignerons blogueurs venus de France, d’Italie et du Portugal se rassemblent pour présenter leur blog et leurs vins, le lundi 22 juin 2009 de 11h à 19h, au château Luchey-Halde à Mérignac. Professionnels du vin, nous vous donnons rendez-vous pour une rencontre chaleureuse autour des vins et de la toile.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/"><strong>http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com</strong></a><strong>  (plan d’accès sur le blog-access map ont the blog &#8211; ) </strong></p>
<p><strong>Pour de plus amples informations contacter -<span style="font-weight:normal;"> More info for this unique event </span>- Para mas informaciones contactar a:   <span style="font-weight:normal;">Emmanuelle Dupéré,                        </span></strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr"><strong>blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr</strong></a><strong>         </strong></p>
<p><strong>A bientot </strong>- See you soon &#8211; <strong>Hasta pronto.</strong></p>
<p>IVOP</p>
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<link>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/vinexpo-winemakers-blogers/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivo Pagès</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[INVITATION First wine bloggers’ &#8220;off&#8221; meeting during Vinexpo 2009   Monday, 22 June 2009]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><strong>INVITATION</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>First wine bloggers’ &#8220;off&#8221; meeting<br />
during Vinexpo 2009<span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> Monday, 22 June 2009 <br />
 11am to 7pm</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Château  Luchey Halde (Mérignac)</strong></p>
<p align="center">Winemaking and vine growing bloggers from across Europe will step onto the other side of the screen, and for the first time they will meet their readers for a tasting of their wines, in a friendly and passionate atmosphere. <br />
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<p><strong>&#8220;Wine and the Net&#8221; tasting</strong></p>
<p>The &#8220;Wine and the Net&#8221; tasting brings together for the first time winemakers with very different backgrounds. French, Italian, Portuguese, German or American, some are recent converts to winemaking, others are from traditional winemaking families; some grow vines organically, others practice conventional agriculture. Most of them know each other only through their blogs.<br />
<strong>United by a common passion</strong></p>
<p>Twenty blogger-winemakers from France, Germany, Italy and Portugal will meet &#8220;off&#8221; Vinexpo to showcase their blogs and their wines on Monday 22 June 2009 from 11 am to 7 pm, at the Château Luchey Halde in Mérignac. Wine professionals and readers of the blogosphere will get together for a friendly meeting about Wine and the Web. </p>
<p><strong>Who are these winemaker bloggers?</strong></p>
<p>Winemakers by profession, they share a passion for their work and a willingness to share that passion. They will gather around the idea of &#8220;inviting wine lovers, novices and interested people to regularly share the experience and the authenticity of the work of winemakers.&#8221;<br />
These winemaking bloggers have chosen the occasion of this global showcase to get closer to people who enjoy their wines as much as their writing. Quite naturally all of this is described on a common blog set up for the event:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/">http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com</a></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center">for your reservation, please send an email indicating your name and the number of persons to come to:</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="mailto:blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr">blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr</a></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p><strong>The twenty two participating winemaker-bloggers are:</strong></p>
<p>- <strong>Bruno et Claudie Bilancini</strong> - Tirecul la Gravière (Monbazillac) <br />
<a href="http://tirecul.canalblog.com/">http://tirecul.canalblog.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Francis Boulard</strong> - Champagne Raymond Boulard et Fils (Champagne) <br />
<a href="http://www.vigneron-champagne.com/">www.vigneron-champagne.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Marc Dalbavie</strong> - Domaine de la Voie Blanche (Périgord)<br />
<a href="http://www.domaine-voie-blanche.com/blog">www.domaine-voie-blanche.com/blog</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Sébastien David</strong> - Domaine Sébastien David (Loire) <br />
<a href="http://patrimoinesd.canalblog.com/">http://patrimoinesd.canalblog.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Thibault Despagne</strong> - Despagne (Bordeaux)<br />
<a href="http://blog.despagne.fr/">http://blog.despagne.fr</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Cyril Dubrey</strong> (Bordeaux)<br />
<a href="http://dubrey.blogspot.com/">http://dubrey.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Emmanuelle Dupéré et Laurent Barrera</strong> (Provence) <br />
<a href="http://www.blogduperebarrera.com/">www.blogduperebarrera.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Cyril Geffard, Vincent Guilbaud</strong> - Domaine des Pierrettes (Loire)<br />
<a href="http://www.domainedespierrettes.fr/blog">www.domainedespierrettes.fr/blog</a></p>
<p>- <strong>David Lelièvre</strong> – Domaine Lelièvre (Côtes de Toul)<br />
<a href="http://www.vins-lelievre.com/blog">www.vins-lelievre.com/blog</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Amy Lilliard</strong> - Domaine de la Gramière (Côtes du Rhône)<br />
<a href="http://lagramiere.typepad.com/francais">http://lagramiere.typepad.com/francais</a>, <a href="http://www.lagramiere.typepad.com/">www.lagramiere.typepad.com</a> <em>anglais</em></p>
<p>- <strong>Samuel Megnan</strong> - Domaine Aloha (Fiefs Vendéens)<br />
<a href="http://www.domaine-aloha.com/">www.domaine-aloha.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Yvon Minvielle</strong> - Château Lagarette (Bordeaux)<br />
<a href="http://chateaulagarette.blogspot.com/">http://chateaulagarette.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Valérye Mordelet</strong> - Les Loges de la Folie (Loire)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.les-loges-de-la-folie.com/">www.les-loges-de-la-folie.com</a></p>
<p><strong>- Ivo Pagès</strong></p>
<p>S’Alqueria – Emporda &#8211; Espagne</p>
<p><a href="http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/">http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Gianpaolo Paglia</strong> (Italie)<br />
<a href="http://poggioargentiera.com/">http://poggioargentiera.com</a> <em>anglais</em></p>
<p>- <strong>Isabelle Perraud</strong> - Cotes de la Molière (Beaujolais)<br />
<a href="http://cotes-de-la-moliere.com/mon-blog">http://cotes-de-la-moliere.com/mon-blog</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Oscar Quevedo</strong> (Portugal)<br />
<a href="http://quevedoportwine.com/">http://quevedoportwine.com</a> <em>anglais</em></p>
<p>- <strong>Iris Rutz-Rudel</strong> - Domaine Lisson (Langedoc) <br />
<a href="http://lisson.over-blog.com/">http://lisson.over-blog.com</a>, <a href="http://weingut-lisson.over-blog.com/">http://weingut-lisson.over-blog.com</a> <em>allemand</em></p>
<p>- <strong>Annie Sauvat</strong> - Domaine Sauvat Claude et Annie (Auvergne)<br />
<a href="http://www.sauvat-vins.com/weblog">www.sauvat-vins.com/weblog</a></p>
<p>-<strong>Laureano Serres Montagut </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://laureanoserres.wordpress.com/">http://laureanoserres.wordpress.com/</a> </p>
<p>- <strong>Benoît Tarlant</strong> - Champagne Tarlant (Champagne)<br />
<a href="http://www.champagne-blog.com/">www.champagne-blog.com</a></p>
<p>- <strong>Charles</strong> <strong>Traonouëz</strong> – Château Malromé (Bordeaux)</p>
<p><a href="http://malrome.over-blog.com/">http://malrome.over-blog.com</a></p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Contact:</span></strong> <br />
Emmanuelle Dupéré, <br />
<a href="mailto:blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr">blogsetvignerons@hotmail.fr</a> <br />
06 21 25 15 99</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Access:</span></strong> <br />
Château Luchey Halde <br />
17 Avenue du Maréchal Joffre <br />
33 &#8211; Mérignac <br />
Tram Line A &#8211; Stop Arlac Fountain <br />
Rocade exit 12 &#8211; Direction Bordeaux</p>
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<link>http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/wine-meets-web-our-first-winery-blogger-meeting-an-off-during-vinexpo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>IrisLisson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/wine-meets-web-our-first-winery-blogger-meeting-an-off-during-vinexpo-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Even if the lissondiary in it&#8217;s English version is a real newcomer on the Web, blogging about ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Even if the<strong> lissondiary</strong> in it&#8217;s English version is a real newcomer on the Web, blogging about Lisson and our wines has already been a part of my life for quite a long time now. All started with a <a href="http://lisson.over-blog.com">French version</a> nearly 4 years ago, soon followed by <a href="http://weingut-lisson.over-blog.com">a German one</a>, as one of my fellow winemakers, <a href="http://morewineplease.wordpress.com/">Thomas Lippert</a>,  known to his German public as the as the <a href="http://winzerblog.de/">Winzerblogger</a>, complained about not being able to read my French texts. So I started <a href="http://weingut-lisson.over-blog.com">weingut-lisson &#8211; Tagebuch einer Winzerin</a> in autumn <strong>2005</strong>.</p>
<p>Both blogs and their different readers (finally from all over the world in the meantime, as I can learn from my <a href="http://www3.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://lisson.over-blog.com">Cluster maps</a>), not only improved our contact with people, who loved (and occasionally bought) our wines, but also led to some real <strong>Internet-friendships</strong> with other <strong>blogging winemakers all around France and Germany</strong>.</p>
<p>We all enjoy comparing our work in the wines, follow the pictures from different regions, see what the plants look like in Champaign, Bordeaux or the Beaujolais, at the Mosel-River or elsewhere&#8230; try to encourage those who had bad weather or congratulate each other for rewards and even taste our exchanged wines&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_164" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-164" title="winemaking bloggers event OFF" src="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/winemaking-bloggers-event-off2.jpeg?w=300" alt="Logo: winemaking bloggers event OFF" width="300" height="217" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Logo: winemaking bloggers event OFF</p></div>
<p>So I didn&#8217;t hesitate for a moment, when some of them proposed, to join together for the <strong>first meeting of blogging winemakers</strong> (vignerons blogueurs) during the coming <strong>VINEXPO at Bordeaux</strong> and we started preparing ou <strong>OFF Event at Chteau Luchey Halde</strong>, at Mrignac, on <strong>monday the 22th of June 2009</strong>.</p>
<p>From <strong>11 in the morning up till 7 pm</strong> we invite all our readers, professional journalists, wine bloggers, merchants and importers to  come to meet us and meet the faces behind our blogs &#8211; and do, what we can&#8217;t yet offer on a blog: taste our wines:-)!</p>
<p>If you are around Bordeaux at that moment and interested to discover this bunch of <strong>21 winemakers from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain</strong>, you&#8217;re welcome.</p>
<p>You can find the <strong>complete list of the participants</strong> and all further information in English <a href="http://lissondiary.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/hello-world/">on this page</a></p>
<p>Or go to our <a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/">common blog</a>, where you&#8217;ll find <strong>a map</strong>, showing <strong>where we come from</strong>, another one, <strong>where to meet us</strong> and all our answers to a <strong>short interview</strong> about our blogging experiences (<em>in French</em>).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com">http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com</a></strong>/</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo 1]]></title>
<link>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/vinexpo-1/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ivo Pagès</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/vinexpo-1/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Il vas y avoir plusieurs articles de Vinexpo &#8230;..voilà le premier ! &#8220;Lors de Vinexpo 2009]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Il vas y avoir plusieurs articles de Vinexpo</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1165" title="images" src="http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/images.jpeg" alt="images" width="117" height="114" /></p>
<p>&#8230;..voilà le premier !</p>
<p><span style="color:#b9eecc;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;Lors de Vinexpo 2009, les blogueurs vignerons vont être présents au château Luchey-Halde à Pessac-Léognan. L&#8217;événement aura lieu le 22 juin de 11 heures à 19 heures. &#8220;</span></strong></span></p>
<p>Plus d&#8217;informations &#8211; More info &#8211; Mas informacion<a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/"><span style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">: </span></a><a href="http://blogsetvignerons.over-blog.com/"><strong>Blogs et Vignerons</strong></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#b9eecc;line-height:normal;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">évidemment j&#8217;y serrais pour devenir meilleur et échanger avec des amis vignerons !</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1164" title="S'alqueria- Single photo - PETITE" src="http://vinyaivo.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/salqueria-single-photo-petite12.jpg?w=150" alt="S'alqueria- Single photo - PETITE" width="150" height="52" /><strong> IVO</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[La exportación de vino resiste la crisis]]></title>
<link>http://gtsa.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/la-exportacion-de-vino-resiste-la-crisis/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eddyk</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gtsa.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/la-exportacion-de-vino-resiste-la-crisis/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lunes 18 de mayo de 2009 Los embarques aumentaron el 8,5% en el primer cuatrimestre de este año Segú]]></description>
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<h3>Los embarques aumentaron el 8,5% en el primer cuatrimestre de este año</h3>
<p>Según los datos preliminares de la consultora Caucasia Wine Thinking, las exportaciones de vinos embotellados argentinos aumentaron un 8,5% en valor, pasando de US$ 152 millones en el primer cuatrimestre de 2008 a US$ 165 millones en el mismo período de este año. Por otro lado, el incremento en volumen fue de un 8,7%. Estados Unidos continúa siendo el mercado líder, con un crecimiento del 28% en valor y del 29% en volumen.</p>
<p>Es de subrayar que el precio promedio de la industria en general durante este período fue de 28,03 dólares por caja de 9 litros. La asociación de exportadores de vinos argentinos Wines of Argentina participará de Vinexpo, la feria internacional del sector que se realiza cada dos años en Bordeaux, Francia.</p>
<p>Fuente: La Nacion</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Spacious House to rent for Vinexpo]]></title>
<link>http://housetorentforvinexpo.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/spacious-house-to-rent-for-vinexpo/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nicollecroft</dc:creator>
<guid>http://housetorentforvinexpo.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/spacious-house-to-rent-for-vinexpo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Five/Six bedrooms in this spacious modernly furnished house in the quiet suburbs of Talence in Borde]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Five/Six bedrooms in this spacious modernly furnished house in the quiet suburbs of Talence in Bordeaux.</p>
<p>200m2 open plan house with enormous shady garden to relax in after your busy days.</p>
<p>On tram line direct to Quinconces/Bordeaux Lac and navette direct to Vinexpo. Normally rented to Christies to accommodate twelve people.</p>
<p>For more information, photos, floor plan, prices</p>
<p>contact <a href="mailto:nicolle@nicollecroft.com">nicolle@nicollecroft.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[VINEXPO 2009, le rendez-vous des professionnels du vin - 21/25 juin 2009]]></title>
<link>http://gites33.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/vinexpo-2009-le-rendez-vous-des-professionnels-du-vin-2125-juin-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gites33</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gites33.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/vinexpo-2009-le-rendez-vous-des-professionnels-du-vin-2125-juin-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vinexpo est LE salon des professionnels du vin du 21 au 25 juin 2009 Vous participez à l&#8217;évène]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="size-full wp-image-18 alignnone" title="vinexpo" src="http://gites33.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/vinexpo.jpg" alt="vinexpo" width="500" height="230" /></p>
<p><strong>Vinexpo est LE salon des professionnels du vin du 21 au 25 juin 2009</strong></p>
<p>Vous participez à l&#8217;évènement Vinexpo à Bordeaux, réservez votre hébergement de qualité aux alentours de Bordeaux, à moins de 45km de Bordeaux Lac. Nous vous proposons 2 formules :</p>
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<li>Gîte rural, location meublée en autonomie, à partir de 220 € pour 2 personnes la semaine  -  <a title="Liste des Gïtes de France près Bordeaux" href="http://www.itea.fr/bin/itea_dyn.net?DEP=33&#38;LOOK=ALIENOR&#38;ACC=G&#38;DEB=200609&#38;NBJ=7&#38;DIR=O&#38;CRIT_9=O" target="_self">Voir les offres</a></li>
<li>Chambre d&#8217;hôtes chez l&#8217;habitant, nuit et petit déjeuner inclus, à partir de 55 € pour 2 pers la nuitée -  <a title="Liste des chambres d'hôtes près Bordeaux" href="http://www.itea.fr/bin/itea_dyn.net?DEP=33&#38;LOOK=ALIENOR&#38;ACC=H&#38;DEB=210609&#38;NBJ=4&#38;DIR=O&#38;CRIT_9=O" target="_self">Voir les offres</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Retrouvez notre offre sur notre site <a href="http://www.gites-de-france-gironde.com" target="_self">www.gites-de-france-gironde.com</a> ou n&#8217;hésitez pas à nous joindre au 05 56 81 54 23</p>
<p><strong>Et si vous prolongiez votre séjour dans les vignobles ?</strong></p>
<p>Profitez de votre séjour à Bordeaux pour découvrir les vignobles bordelais avec les propriétaires Gîtes de France de la Gironde. Vous connaissez les hébergements Bacchus ?</p>
<p>Ces hébergements sont situés sur des propriétés viticoles. Vos hôtes vous feront découvrir, en autres, le travail de la vigne et  du vin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.itea.fr/bin/itea_dyn.net?DEP=33&#38;LOOK=ALIENOR&#38;ACC=G,H&#38;THE=bacc" target="_self">Cliquez ici pour découvrir les 32 hébergements, gîte rural ou chambres d&#8217;hôtes Bacchus dans les vignobles</a></p>
<p><strong>Informations pratiques :</strong></p>
<p><a href="//maps.google.fr/maps/ms?hl=fr&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;msa=0&#38;msid=117628527444329748649.0004671bf13afb665682c&#38;ll=44.896772,-0.57292&#38;spn=0.021219,0.038624&#38;z=15&#62;" target="_blank">Plan d&#8217;accès au salon Vinexpo &#8211; Parc des Expositions &#8211; Bordeaux Lac</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Poised to Become World's Largest Wine-Consuming Market by 2012]]></title>
<link>http://usapa.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/us-poised-to-become-worlds-largest-wine-consuming-market-by-2012/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>usapa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://usapa.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/us-poised-to-become-worlds-largest-wine-consuming-market-by-2012/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[More confirmation of the steady march forward ito US wine consumption. Esp good news following repor]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK Tops Wine Imports Tables]]></title>
<link>http://euromarque.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/uk-tops-wine-imports-tables/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>winelabels</dc:creator>
<guid>http://euromarque.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/uk-tops-wine-imports-tables/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The UK has topped the world wine imports tables according to the industry body Vinexpo, the French b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>The UK has topped the world wine imports tables </strong>according to the industry body Vinexpo, the French based international wine and spirits exhibition.</p>
<p>In their latest report imports topped 1.6bn bottles in 2007, overtaking the Germans, previously import leader by volume. The US still stands as the top wine importer by value. Both of which are major wine producers.<br />
Wine from Australia proved to be most popular among British drinkers, ahead of imports from France and then the US.</p>
<p>British adults are likely to get through nearly 38 bottles a year on average, well short of the world&#8217;s most prolific wine drinkers &#8211; the French &#8211; who knock back 78 bottles each. Overall the UK still ranks only 13th in terms of world wine consumption.</p>
<p>Despite the increasing quantities of wine flowing into the UK, the economic downturn has had an effect.</p>
<p>Sales dropped by more than 3.5% in the first nine months of 2008, largely due to falling sales in pubs. And annual growth in the wine market is expected to halve to 6% by 2012, which is still a healthy figure.</p>
<p>Predictions are that consumption will rise slightly.<br />
White wine will increase in popularity from an estimated 764 million bottles last year to 823 million by 2012 and rose sales are expected to rise by almost 50% to 220 million. We got through 720 million bottles of red in 2008 but this is expected to fall to 687 million by 2012.</p>
<p>World wine consumption is expected to rise as a whole to 33 billion bottles over the next three years.</p>
<p><strong>Whisky sales down</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Meanwhile our national spirit, Scotch, is continuing to lose out in the popularity stakes to the UK&#8217;s favourite spirit – vodka, the tipple of women and the young.</p>
<p>Vinexpo said sales of whisky dropped 11% between 2003 and 2007 and will continue falling.</p>
<p>In 2007, Britons bought 96 million bottles of vodka and that is predicted to rise by 20% in the next three years.</p>
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<title><![CDATA["UK Wine Consumption Will Rise Despite Recession" - Well They Would Say That Wouldn't they?]]></title>
<link>http://wineoftheweek.co.uk/2009/01/14/uk-wine-consumption-will-rise-despite-recession-well-they-would-say-that-wouldnt-they/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For me, whenever I&#8217;m sad, I drink,&#8221; confessed Bora Baki, co-owner of Hillsborough]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;For me, whenever I&#8217;m sad, I drink,&#8221; confessed Bora Baki, co-owner of Hillsborough Vineyards near Hillsboro, Virgina USA,  &#8220;But whenever I&#8217;m happy, I drink. So, I don&#8217;t know, maybe wine is recession-proof.&#8221;</p>
<p>This morning I attended a press conference at Christies entitled &#8221; The 12th</p>
<div id="attachment_471" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 210px"><img class="size-full wp-image-471" title="mktgpic8" src="http://gavin1972.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/mktgpic8.jpg" alt="If you think happy thoughts, everthing will be fine!!" width="200" height="185" /><p class="wp-caption-text">If you think happy thoughts, everything will be fine!!</p></div>
<p>Global Study on current trends in the international Wine &#38; Spirits markets and outlook to 2012.&#8221; The presentation was by <a href="http://www.vinexpo.com/">Vinexpo</a> based on research from <a href="http://www.iwsr.co.uk/" target="_blank">IWSR</a>.</p>
<p>The occasion was marked by a total absence of any reference to the current implosion of global capitalism.  Chart after chart of growth predictions were trotted out and I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;Are these guys living in the same world as I am?&#8221;.</p>
<p>A question from the floor about the implications of economic meltdown was batted away like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Boycott">Geoffroy Boycott </a>stuck on 99. As a result, for me, the presentation was as devalued as the pound after the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/16/newsid_2519000/2519013.stm" target="_blank">ERM crisis</a>.  So, inspite of the press release claiming growth will continue despite recession, they had no facts to back this up. Amazing.</p>
<p>It was also one of those occasions where you wish Microsoft hadn&#8217;t invented powerpoint. An hour of slides with titles like &#8220;Top Ten Still Light Wine* Consuming Countries on Jupiter&#8221; is a tough ask. Have these guys not heard of Live Streaming? Surely we could have all watched this at home/work and they would have trebled their audience.</p>
<p>Anyway in between bombarding Twitter with a series of factual tweets (thanks to <a href="http://wineconversation.com/" target="_blank">thirstforwine </a>for keeping me amused) I did manage to record the following facts:-</p>
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<li>The Russians are coming! While the UK remains the number 1 consumer of imported wine but I was surprised to see that Russia is in at Number 4. Oh and China is on the march too&#8230;</li>
<li>Here&#8217;s one that surprised me &#8211; The UK consumes more white wine than it does red. Not in my house it doesn&#8217;t.</li>
<li>Here&#8217;s another that caused an arched eyebrow &#8211; The average cost per bottle in the UK is increasing and looks set to continue. Really? I think if you take inflation and Duty out of these calculations I doubt this is true. Over to you Vinexpo&#8230;</li>
<li>Italy remains the top consuming country of Still Wine with the UK fifth. However, the US is predicted to be Number 1 by 2012 and there are big growth expectations for both China and Russia</li>
<li>Italy, France and Spain account are the Top 3 wine exporters but France has dropped back in terms of volume and remains under pressure. C&#8217;mon France, get your act together.</li>
<li>Australia is now comfortably the top supplier of wine to the UK market with France dropping to 2nd and now under serious threat from the US.  If ever there was evidence of the rise of brands then this is it. Depressing.</li>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the slideshow if you want to see lots of charts</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Proyectan buenas perspectivas para la Vinexpo 2009 ]]></title>
<link>http://awpro.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/proyectan-buenas-perspectivas-para-la-vinexpo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[15/12/08 Fuente: La Segunda Online | Chile Faltando siete meses para la inauguración del salón, Vine]]></description>
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Fuente: La Segunda Online &#124; Chile</p>
<p>Faltando siete meses para la inauguración del salón, Vinexpo, que tendrá lugar en Bordeaux desde el domingo 21 al jueves 25 de junio de 2009, alcanzó sus objetivos comerciales y presentará una superficie de stands de más de 40 000 m². Las empresas de dimensión internacional fueron las primeras en responder: Constellation, Concha y Toro, Taittinger, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Roederer, entre otros. Junto a estos grandes grupos, numerosas pequeñas y medianas empresas estarán igualmente presentes &#8230;<!--more--></p>
<p>Los principales países productores han asimismo reservado sus espacios para la implantación de los pabellones nacionales: Alemania, Estados-Unidos, Portugal, Italia y España.</p>
<p>En total, el salón ocupará una superficie de 90 000 m² que comprenderá los halls de exposición, los jardines, le Club del Lac, los restaurantes, las salas de conferencias y de catas como así también el conjunto de servicios.</p>
<p>Le Lac, pausa del salón y vector de quietud<br />
Componente mayor de la arquitectura de Vinexpo, le Lac hace del salón un sitio excepcional.</p>
<p>El concepto del Club du Lac creado en 2007 había singularmente seducido a sus participantes. En 2009, será nuevamente un lugar de encuentros privilegiado.</p>
<p>« Marketers by Vinexpo », sección creada en el 2007, dedicada a los equipos y soluciones para la venta a los consumidores de vinos y de bebidas espirituosas, se dará nuevamente cita en el Palais des Congrès de Bordeaux y será de mayor tamaño.</p>
<p>Transformada en verdadera estrella en el 2007, la pasarela flotante en el 2009 será nuevamente instalada en el lago. Elegante pero sobretodo práctica, la pasarela conoció un indiscutible éxito ya que miles de personas la atravesaron diariamente.</p>
<p>Un vasto programa de promoción hacia los visitantes<br />
Fueron 50 433 provenientes de 154 países los que llegaron hasta Vinexpo en 2007. Son importadores, mayoristas, agentes comerciales, compradores pertenecientes al sector de distribución moderno y tiendas especializadas, bodegueros, hotelería, restaurantes, compradores de Duty Free.</p>
<p>Para sensibilizar estos compradores, Vinexpo pone en marcha una vasta campaña de información y de sensibilización a través de 19 conferencias de prensa y de reencuentros con los profesionales en los más importantes mercados, pero también gracias al envío de mailing, folletos y compra de espacios publicitarios.</p>
<p>Vinexpo les informa sobre los mercados y el futuro de los mismos<br />
Desde hace 12 años, Vinexpo hace realizar un estudio prospectivo sobre la coyuntura mundial del vino y de las bebidas espirituosas. Este análisis, confiado al estudio británico IWSR, esta investigación analiza las evoluciones de la producción en 28 países y el consumo en 114 países. Ansiosamente esperado en un período económico inestable, los resultados serán revelados en París, Londres, pero también en New-York, Montreal, Toronto, Seúl, Tokio, Singapur, Pekín, Shangai, Hong Kong, Bruselas, Moscú, Wiesbaden, Ámsterdam y Milán.</p>
<p>Vinexpo tendrá lugar en Bordeaux desde el domingo 21 al jueves 25 de junio de 2009</p>
<p>http://www.lasegunda.com/ediciononline/economia/detalle/index.asp?idnoticia=453330</p>
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<link>http://winesinasia.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/success-at-vinexpo-asia-pacific-2008/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The success of Vinexpo Asia-Pacific 2008 in Hong Kong reveals how much the Asian wine and spirits pr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The success of Vinexpo Asia-Pacific 2008 in Hong Kong reveals how much the Asian wine and spirits professionals were awaiting the event. The attendance of large numbers of important buyers, importers and distributors, alongside the international press and renowned experts, who spoke at the seminars and led tastings, confirms the leadership of Vinexpo Asia-Pacific in this area.<br />Meaningful figures</p>
<p>The exhibition held at the Hong Kong Convention &#38; Exhibition Centre, welcomed 8,868 exclusively professional visitors, exactly 28.8% more than in 2006.</p>
<p>45% of these came from Hong Kong and Macao, while 55% were from 19 other Asian-Pacific countries: China (2,254) led with twice as many visitors as in 2006, followed by Korea (657), Taiwan (438), Japan (209), Singapore (203), Australia (175), Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, India and other countries in the region.</p>
<p>These visitors represented all the different business sectors: importers, wholesalers, retailers, sommeliers and food &#38; beverage managers, duty free and airline purchasers, and the hospitality sector.</p>
<p>375 journalists from Asian press, radio and TV covered the event as well as a number of European and US general and trade press correspondents.</p>
<p>692 exhibitors from 32 countries presented the largest range of wines and spirits ever put on display at a single venue in Asia-Pacific and had around 70,000 bottles available for tasting.</p>
<p>The University hosted 33 seminars and was visited by more than 4,500 professionals. The presentations and tastings were particularly well attended by visitors, who continuously sought information with a real thirst for knowledge.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t forget that number 8! It is a symbol of luck and success in Asia &#8211; the Beijing Olympics are due to begin at 8.08 on 8 August 2008 &#8211; so the 8,868 visitors, who came to Vinexpo Asia-Pacific 2008, clearly represent in Asian minds a very auspicious number&#8230;<br />Market trends</p>
<p>The strong interest generated by the exhibition confirms the energy that exists in the Asian market, which is a consequence of the growing attraction of consumers towards wine and spirits.</p>
<p>&#8220;All the exhibitors reported noticing marked progress over the past few years in the knowledge and appreciation of the products. We are convinced that this contributes to the development of the wine and spirits industry in the region by stimulating consumption,&#8221; declared Ms. Dominique Hériard Dubreuil, President of Vinexpo Overseas.</p>
<p>According to the VINEXPO / The IWSR study, Asia&#8217;s wine market will grow the fastest in the next five years, achieving 8% annual growth compared to a world average of 1%. Retail sales of still wines in Asia in 2006 amounted to US$4.753 billion and should increase by 33.9% between now and 2011.</p>
<p>Having downed 1.04 billion 9-litre cases in 2006, Asia-Pacific remains the leading consumer of spirits in the world &#8211; 47% of all spirits consumed in the world are drunk in Asia!</p>
<p>Generosity from the exhibitors</p>
<p>1,912 bottles including about one hundred of spirits were collected at the end of the exhibition. Vinexpo had invited exhibitors to donate bottles in aid of the Sichuan earthquake victims in China. These bottles will be put on sale in the coming month by Watson Wine Cellar for the 22,000 members of Watson Wine Club to purchase. The proceeds will then be handed over to the Hong Kong Red Cross.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vinexpo Hong Kong '08 – Fruit Wine Success in Asia!]]></title>
<link>http://dailyfruitwine.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/vinexpo-hong-kong-08-%e2%80%93-fruit-wine-success-in-asia/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last week in Hong Kong was the bi-annual Asia-Pacific version of the hugely popular VINEXPO wine tra]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zIMm3E9GtPs/SEOEOfFQWGI/AAAAAAAAEpU/m7rDV4dgHf4/s1600-h/vinexpo.jpg"><img style="float:left;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zIMm3E9GtPs/SEOEOfFQWGI/AAAAAAAAEpU/m7rDV4dgHf4/s200/vinexpo.jpg" border="0" /></a>Last week in Hong Kong was the bi-annual Asia-Pacific version of the hugely popular VINEXPO wine trade fair. It is a place where the entire wine world meets, exchanges technical and marketing ideas, and where new wines are on showcase. It is also a time when buyers often make purchasing decisions based on market trends and what is new in the industry.</p>
<p>I spent the week in Hong Kong and am glad to report that the very busy event showed a fast growing interest in fruit wines on all fronts. </p>
<p>Being an international event, there were fruit wines from all corners of the globe. I will note a few of the ones that really stood out.</p>
<p>First off there was the apple wines from <span style="font-style:italic;">Northern Spain<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span> in the Asturias Principality and promoted by the <a href="http://www.idepa.es">IDEPA</a> which is the economic development agency of the area. A nice range of apple wines and ciders that was extremely pleasant and well received.</p>
<p>From <span style="font-style:italic;">Canada<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span>, there were the fruit wines of <a href="http://www.fieldstonefruitwines.com">Field Stone Fruit Wines</a> located in the province of Alberta. A wonderful range of berry wines including Raspberry fortified wines, Strawberry and Saskatoon berry fortified wines. There were literally line-ups for a chance to taste these great wines. Also from Canada was the Organic Apple Mistel from Qanuk Estates. It was truly a rich and wonderfully aromatic Mistel worthy of great pride by the young winemaker promoting his wine.</p>
<p>From <span style="font-weight:bold;">Thailand<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span> were the absolutely wonderful tropical fruit wines from Mythical Garden. Hugely aromatic wines made from Passion Fruit, Pineapple and Mangosteen. There wines were a hit at the show and the winery has done a great job with their packaging, which was truly world class.</p>
<p>Another interesting event was the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Korean Fruit wine tasting<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span> which occurred at the show. It was a large showcase of most Korean fruit wines. The event drew a large crowd, as people were eager to discover and savour unique wines. The wines tasting were the wild Raspberry, Blackberry and Currant wines grown and fermented naturally on the Korean Peninsula. This was a wonderful find for every one lucky enough to taste them.</p>
<p>Part of the success of fruit wines at the show is the general openness of Asian people when it comes to wines made from fruit. Most regard berries of tree fruits as an equal counterpart to grapes when it comes to winemaking. This opens up a lots of market opportunities and gives consumers a greater choice of wine ranges.</p>
<p>Fruit wines of course lends itself very well to the rich and varied cuisine found in this diverse land and the Asian pallet has an affinity to sweeter, aromatic wines that fruit wines certainly expresses well.</p>
<p>Asia is a very competitive market when it comes to wine as the whole world is trying to get a market share but I must say that fruit wines do stand out well in this adaptable and open market, full of opportunities.</p>
<p>I raise a glass to the success of Vinexpo 2008 (that’s a glass of fruit wine by the way)!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jean Marie Chadronnier: "El espíritu del vino entre los jóvenes es cada vez más débil"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[28/02/08 Chadronnier afirma que &#8220;el desarrollo español es un ejemplo que evidencia lo que los ]]></description>
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Chadronnier afirma que &#8220;el desarrollo español es un ejemplo que evidencia lo que los franceses no hicimos&#8221;. Jean Marie Chadronnier es el presidente de Vinexpo, la mayor feria mundial del vino, y esta mañana, invitado por la firma Rivercap, participa en el IV Foro del Marketing del Vino.</p>
<p>- ¿Cómo están los vinos franceses tras la crisis de los últimos años? &#8230;</p>
<p>Fuente: Larioja.com &#124; A. Gil<!--more--></p>
<p>- Han reaccionado, aunque tardía y lentamente, comprendiendo la necesidad de cambios estructurales (producción, reglamentación ) y culturales (simplificar la oferta adaptándola a las necesidades de los consumidores). Pero es un proceso muy largo.</p>
<p>- El año pasado visité Vinexpo. Mi conclusión fue que, con tal competencia, si tuviera dinero nunca invertiría en una bodega&#8230;</p>
<p>- Los propietarios de grandes viñedos de Burdeos están muy orgullosos de su inversión. Muchos otros también. Ciertas inversoras también. Aunque claro, hay también muchos &#8216;perdedores&#8217; y, es verdad, que el mercado es muy competitivo y con multitud de actores. El sector ha evolucionado y va a continuar haciéndolo. Los grandes vinos se han convertido en productos de lujo mediáticos y de cierto estatus. Los vinos corrientes por el contrario (el vino como &#8216;bebida de diario&#8217;) han desaparecido prácticamente.</p>
<p>- Las campañas contra el consumo de alcohol, como la ley Evin en Francia. ¿Están haciendo daño al consumo de vino?</p>
<p>- La ley Evin es símbolo de la ceguera y falta de realismo francés: ¿el país de referencia en materia de vino es aquel en el que se prohíbe la comunicación! El producto que no puede comunicar está consagrado a desaparecer. La presencia del espíritu del vino entre los jóvenes es cada vez más débil.</p>
<p>- Vinexpo se celebra en años alternos en Asia. ¿Es el mercado asiático el gran potencial para el sector vinícola internacional?</p>
<p>- El mercado asiático tiene un potencial considerable, más si hoy representa sólo alrededor de un 4% del consumo mundial de vinos tranquilos. Pero, afortunadamente, hay también otros muchos mercados en crecimiento, por lo que se puede ser optimista ante un consumo que no deja de aumentar.</p>
<p>- ¿A qué atribuye el éxito de los llamados países emergentes?</p>
<p>- A varias cuestiones. A no haber tenido un pasado, una historia a la que aferrarse; a haber buscado y logrado entender la demanda de las jóvenes generaciones; a haber producido el vino que convenía y haberlo propuesto con códigos sencillos de entender; y a haber sabido crear mercados con medidas de marketing adaptadas.</p>
<p>- ¿Qué futuro adivina para el vino español y para el de Rioja?</p>
<p>- El cambio en España en los últimos 25 años es espectacular Yo lo cito a menudo como ejemplo de lo que los franceses no han hecho, es decir, un caso opuesto. España ha consumado lo esencial de los cambios estructurales y culturales. Le falta aún conquistar los mercados con conceptos ambiciosos, duraderos y exitosos.</p>
<p>- Rioja intenta transmitir una imagen tradicional (sin virutas, control de rendimientos, de prácticas enológicas&#8230; ¿Es una buena estrategia?</p>
<p>- Si funciona puede ser una buena estrategia, si no&#8230;, a nadie le sirve ser más papista que el Papa.</p>
<p>Fuente: Larioja.com</p>
<p><a href="http://www.larioja.com/20080228/rioja-region/espiritu-vino-entre-jovenes-20080228.html">http://www.larioja.com/20080228/rioja-region/espiritu-vino-entre-jovenes-20080228.html</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Les meilleurs sites de vente en vin ? ]]></title>
<link>http://echangeurba.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/les-meilleurs-sites-de-vente-en-vin/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Le vin et le Web ont toujours fait bon ménage. La vente en ligne représente 5% des ventes mondiales ]]></description>
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<div style="text-align:justify;">Le vin et le Web ont toujours <a title="Vin et TIC" href="http://echangeurba.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/vin-et-tic-un-bon-assemblage/" target="_self">fait bon ménage</a>. La vente en ligne représente 5% des ventes mondiales de vin. Cela peut paraître marginal, mais <strong>le secteur connaît une croissance annuelle de 30 à 40%</strong>.<br />
Ainsi, à l&#8217;occasion de Vinexpo, nous avons organisé, avec <a href="http://www.bordeaux-bs.edu/" target="_blank">BEM </a>et CIAO Groupe, une conférence autour d&#8217;une étude réalisée en mai auprès de 2 813 internautes et de 28 sites de vente en ligne de vin (dont 20 français). Ces 28 sites de départ ont été selectionnés en fonction de leur référencement via Google.</p>
<p>Il a été proposé aux internautes &#8220;testeurs&#8221; de réaliser en quinze minutes un achat de vin avec un budget fictif de 150 euros. Les internautes ont ensuite établi le classement en évaluant les sites sur sept critères : l’information, la sécurité et le respect de la vie privée, la fidélisation et la relation client, l’utilisation, l’offre, la personnalisation, la fiabilité et le design. L&#8217;idée étant de constituer une échelle d&#8217;évaluation &#8220;design&#8221; qui pourrait être utile à tout marchand de vin sur Internet&#8230;</p>
<p>Ce palmarès a récompensé Nicolas, Vin.fr et Rouge et blanc pour le trio français, mais c&#8217;est l&#8217;américain Wine.com qui vient néanmoins en tête du classement.<br />
1/ <a href="http://www.wine.com/" target="_blank">www.wine.com </a>(US)<br />
2/ <a href="http://www.nicolas.com/" target="_blank">www.nicolas.com </a>(FR)<br />
3/ <a href="http://www.laithwaites.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.laithwaites.co.uk</a> (UK)<br />
4/ <a href="http://www.rouge-blanc.com/" target="_blank">www.rouge-blanc.com</a> (FR)<br />
5/ <a href="http://www.rouge-blanc.com/" target="_blank">www.vintagecellars.com.au</a> (AUS)</p>
<p>Ils en parlent :<br />
- <a href="http://www.metrofrance.com/fr/article/2007/06/22/10/5708-54/index.xml" target="_blank">Métro :Le boom du vin sur Internet</a>.<br />
- <a href="http://sowine.typepad.fr/sowine/2007/06/palmars_interna.html" target="_blank">Sowine : le baromètre des meilleurs sites Internet de vente</a>.<br />
- <a href="http://www.viti-net.fr/Outils/Fiches/FichesDetail.asp?idRub=24&#38;id=40672" target="_blank">Viti : les lauréats du e-commerce</a>.<br />
- <a href="http://www.drinksint.com/articles/45943/e-Performance-measured-for-wine-sites.aspx?categoryid=9048" target="_blank">Drinksint : e-performance measured for Wine site</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.lsa.fr/article/Page_article.cfm?dtc=487363%40B4C9369A63C5CC2DFACCD4AE00716259&#38;idoc=108039&#38;navartrech=1" target="_blank">LSA : le palmarès des sites de vente de vin récompense Nicolas.</a></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A la vôtre !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Claire Decroix</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Orage à Bordeaux Acte I (Off Pey-Labrie et Rencontre de bloggeurs)]]></title>
<link>http://vendredis.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/orage-a-bordeaux-acte-i-off-pey-labrie-et-rencontre-de-bloggeurs/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ma &#8220;semaine bordelaise&#8221; commençait tranquillement par un tour au Moulin Pey-Labrie. Je n&#8217;avais pas trop envie d&#8217;arpenter dès 8h30 les travées du parc des Expos&#8230;Un dimanche matin, vous imaginez???</p>
<p>Des dégustations bucoliques me semblaient bien plus sympathiques. Direction Fronsac et sur place, je retrouvais un confrère champenois aux <a href="http://www.larmandier.com/index.php?lang=fr">cuvées dynamiques</a>. Je rencontrais aussi <a href="http://www.savennieres-closel.com/fr/som0_g.htm">Isaure</a> de Savennières, qui seconde Evelyne (OIVienne P13). Je connaissais déjà le domaine, mais pas la nouvelle génération.</p>
<p>Sur la barrique de Marcel Richaud, je retrouvais des &#8220;Oiviens&#8221; P18-19. (<font size="2">Je vais tenter de faire un post pour vous expliquer qui sont ces Oiviens <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </font>)</p>
<p>Je terminais avec Jean-Michel Stephan de Côte Rôtie et Elian Da Ros des Côtes du Marmandais. La dernière fois qu&#8217;on s&#8217;était vu, c&#8217;était pour une soirée brugeoise mémorable à l&#8217;occasion de la sortie de &#8220;Terug naar de Wijngaard&#8221;!!!</p>
<p>De 10h à 17h, entrecoupé d&#8217;un buffet, les dégustations se sont suivies. Mais comme dit Pierre :&#8221;ce qui est bien dans ce type de salon, c&#8217;est que même en buvant beaucoup on n&#8217;a pas mal à la tête <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8220;&#8230;(Les photos prises sont quelque part sur mon téléphone, mais je n&#8217;arrive plus à les retrouver, donc si je mets la main dessus, j&#8217;upload)</p>
<p>Il était l&#8217;heure pourtant de retourner sur Bordeaux et retrouver nos amis bloggeurs. C&#8217;était à priori le bon moment pour rentrer (vu le monde qui sortait du salon à pied et en voiture). Evidemment, on s&#8217;est garé à l&#8217;opposé du Hall 3 et du stand de Despagne, donc après avoir traversé la totalité du parking, on a du resquiller pour entrer à 18h30 (heure de fermeture).</p>
<p>Nous retrouvions la troupe de bloggeurs tranquillement attablés autour de quelques verres, se préoccupant peu du trafic extérieur ou de la fermeture des lumières du salon. C&#8217;est limite le videur de Vinexpo qui nous a sorti. Merci à la maison <a href="http://www.despagne.fr/act/">Despagne</a> pour son accueil intra-expo, à <a href="http://www.blog-planete-bordeaux.net/2007/06/18/rencontre-au-sommet/">Mathieu</a> pour nous avoir gardé une place sur les quais et surtout sous la tente et d&#8217;avoir répondu présent à <a href="http://www.vins-lelievre.com/blog/?p=91">David</a>, aux <a href="http://www.blogduperebarrera.com/article-6834767-6.html#anchorComment">DB</a>,à <a href="http://blog.chaigne.fr/">Régis</a> qui mettait en bouteille le lendemain, à <a href="http://vendredis.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/vinexpo-officiel-2007/">Laurent</a> et aux champenois <a href="http://champagne-laherte.blogspot.com/2007/06/vinexpo-et-petites-ballades-entre-amis.html">Aurélien</a>, <a href="http://www.vigneron-champagne.com/">Francis</a>, et <a href="http://unisparlevin.blogspot.com/">Raphaël &#38; Co</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dbzp_vendanges-de-blogs-a-vinexpo-2007">Vendanges de blogs à Vinexpo 2007</a></strong><br />
<em>vidéo envoyée par <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Benoit_Tarlant">Benoit_Tarlant</a></em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e4qv_orage-sur-les-quais-de-bordeaux">Orage sur les quais de Bordeaux</a></strong><br />
<em>vidéo envoyée par <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Benoit_Tarlant">Benoit_Tarlant</a></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Belle soirée "off" au Château Tire-Pé]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[S&#8217;il y avait un &#8220;Off&#8221; de Vinexpo que je ne pouvais pas rater, c&#8217;était bien c]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/23/40/71856/14560035.jpg"><img border="0" width="77" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/23/40/71856/14560035_p.jpg" alt="contain_sulfites_2" height="150" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a>S&#8217;il y avait un &#8220;Off&#8221; de Vinexpo que je ne pouvais pas rater, c&#8217;était bien celui-là. Réunis autour du slogan <a href="http://champagne.typepad.com/podcast/2007/06/offvinexpo_cont.html">&#8220;Contains sulfites&#8230; mais pas trop&#8221;</a> une bande de jeunes vignerons trouve régulièrement un prétexte pour se retrouver. Leur philosophie commune peut se résumer en quelques mots: respect du terroir (le moins de traitements possible, des rendements raisonnables), respect du vin (pas de levurage ni d&#8217;enzymes ou autres adjuvants), respect du consommateur (un peu de SO2 à la mise lorsque cela s&#8217;avère nécessaire afin que la bouteille se conserve le mieux possible).</p>
<p align="justify">Il faut dire aussi que <a href="http://vinsnature.canalblog.com/archives/2007/02/27/4151003.html">Marc Houtin</a>, <a href="http://vinsnature.canalblog.com/archives/2007/02/27/4151029.html">Damien Laureau</a> et <a href="http://vinsnature.canalblog.com/archives/2007/05/13/4936895.html">Franck Pascal</a> font partie de ce groupe. Et comme j&#8217;essaie (et réussit parfois) de vendre leur vin dans ce beau coin d&#8217;Aquitaine, c&#8217;était une occasion de les revoir, mais aussi de faire connaissance avec leurs amis vignerons ;o)</p>
<p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;">La journée avait été chargée: le matin, j&#8217;étais allé au salon Expression Bio, puis à Renaissance des Appellations (vins en bio-dynamie). Et l&#8217;après-midi, j&#8217;étais allé au salon Botrytis organisé par SAPROS (producteurs de liquoreux non chaptalisés).</p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Le plus dur fut de quitter Bordeaux (1 heure d&#8217;embouteillage) pour rejoindre Gironde sur Dropt au <a href="http://www.tirepe.com/">Château Tire-Pé</a> où avait lieu la soirée.</p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Je suis arrivé en pleine averse violente: j&#8217;ai donc rejoint les convives à l&#8217;intérieur de la maison. Mais très vite, le temps s&#8217;est remis au beau, et tout le monde est ressorti avec quelques bouteilles à boire&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Pour se remettre en appétit, rien ne vaut du Champagne. Ca tombe bien, Benoît Tarlant en propose ;o) Je le connaissais un petit peu via son <a href="http://champagne.typepad.com/">blog</a>, mais rien ne vaut les vraies rencontres. Une flûte à la main.</p>
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<p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><font color="#c0c0c0" face="Verdana"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/84/14/71856/14606018.jpg"></a></font></strong><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/56/37/71856/14608599.jpg"><img border="0" width="150" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/56/37/71856/14608599_p.jpg" alt="benoit" height="113" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><strong>Brut Zero</strong> (1/3 chardonnay, 1/3 pinot noir, 1/3 pinot meunier, non dosé): nez sur la pomme fraîche et la noisette. Bouche ronde et fraîche, avec beaucoup de droiture, et une finale d&#8217;une âprété vivifiante qui vous réveille les papilles. Tonique.</p>
<p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Vigne d&#8217;antan</strong> (Chardonnay franc de pied): joli nez sur la brioche au beurre et la noisette grillée. Bouche dense, vineuse, avec une belle ampleur. Longue finale. Plus un (beau) vin qu&#8217;un champagne.</p>
<p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><strong>Prestige 1997</strong></font> (60% chardonnay, 30% pinot noir, 10% pinot meunier): très beau nez. Bouche d&#8217;une belle complexité, avec de la vinosité et beaucoup de finesse. Très bien! </p>
<p align="justify" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Cuvée Louis (</strong>50% pinot noir, 50% chardonnay): nez d&#8217;une grande finesse avec des notes d&#8217;évolution. Bouche ample, complexe, expressive, très &#8220;goûtue&#8221;. Grande persistance. Superbe! </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Le domaine <a href="http://www.domaine-boesch.com/fr_domaine.htm">Léon Boesch</a> a une grande réputation en Alsace. Je n&#8217;avais pourtant pas encore eu l&#8217;occasion<a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/98/86/71856/14608615.jpg"><img border="0" width="81" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/98/86/71856/14608615_p.jpg" alt="mathieu_boesch" height="150" style="float:right;margin:0 0 5px 5px;" /></a> de<a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/75/74/71856/14606027.jpg"> </a>goûter l&#8217;un de ses vins. C’est Mathieu, représentant de la nouvelle génération, qui s’y colle.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Klevner 2005 :</strong> nez fruité, bouche ronde, friande, fraîche. Sympa.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Riesling 2005 :</strong> nez sur la pomme mûre et une pointe d’agrumes. Bouche ample, bien mûre, avec une acidité toute en finesse. Bel équilibre. Bien. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Pinot gris « clos zwingel » 2005 :</strong> nez sur des notes grillées et de fruits confits. Bouche grasse, riche, comlplexe, avec un équilibre remarquable. Très beau.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Riesling Breitenberg 2005 :</strong> beau nez sur les fruits exotiques. Bouche fraîche, mûre, acidité superbe, belle finale. Très bien.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Gewürztraminer Breittenberg 2005 :</strong> nez expressif très « gewürz » sans lourdeur toutefois. Bouche ample, gourmande, d’une belle complexité aromatique. Très bien.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Gewürztraminer GC Zinkoepflé Vendanges Tardives 2004:</strong> nez confit d’une grande élégance. Bouche alliant suavité et fraîcheur. Acidité remarquable. Equilibre magnifique. J&#8217;adore! </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Je continue sur les blancs avec les <strong>Acacias 2005</strong> du  Jonc Blanc qui vient d’être mis en bouteille : robe d’un beau doré. Nez expressif sur le miel et la pomme mûre. La bouche est grasse, ample, d’une grande richesse. Belle et longue finale. Très beau ! </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Transition blanc/rouge en passant au domaine bourguignon <a href="http://www.naudin-ferrand.com/">Naudin-Ferrand</a>. Claire, qui le dirige depuis 10 ans, me fait découvrir une partie de sa gamme.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Aligoté 2005 :</strong> nez assez discret sur les fruits blanc et le citron. Bouche ronde, friande, toute en fraîcheur. Beau vin de soif !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Haute Côte de Beaune blanc 2005 :</strong> nez discret. Bouche assez ample, bien équilibrée. Finale avec de <strong>la mâche (calcaire). </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Haute Côte de Nuits blanc 2005 :</strong> nez beaucoup plus expressif sur la noisette et la pomme beurrée. Bouche ronde, ample, avec du gras. Finale puissante. Beau chardonnay !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Haute Côte de Beaune rouge 2005 :</strong> nez sur les fruits rouges et les épices, avec qqs notes sauvages. Bouche ronde, sympa. Finale un peu trop tannique à mon goût. Dommage.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Haute Côte de Beaune rouge 2005 « Orchis Masculata »</strong> (cuvée sans soufre): nez très complexe, envoûtant sur des notes balsamiques (santal, benjoin) et de liqueur de fruits noirs. Bouche à la belle matière veloutée, complexe, gourmande. C’est très très  bon !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Côtes de Nuits village « vieilles vignes » 2005 :</strong> nez complexe sur les fruits bien mûrs et les épices. Bouche ample, mûre, aux tannins soyeux, très gourmande. Très bien !</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/39/80/71856/14606329.jpg"></a></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/79/86/71856/14608627.jpg"><img border="0" width="111" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/79/86/71856/14608627_p.jpg" alt="DB" height="150" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a>Maintenant que je suis lancé sur les rouges, je continue dans cette couleur en dégustant d&#8217;abord les vins de<a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/69/70/71856/14606715.jpg"> </a>notre hôte, <em>David Barrault.</em><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/48/03/71856/14606309.jpg"></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Bordeaux Tire Pé 2005 :</strong> nez sur les fruits noirs et le bourgeon de cassis. Bouche pleine, ample, matière bien mûre. Belle finale. Beau vin.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Bordeaux Tire Pé 2005 « la Côte » :</strong> nez complexe, balsamique. Bouche ample et riche. Les tannins, discrets au départ, se font ressentir fortement à la fin. Prometteur mais à attendre.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/53/88/71856/14606244.jpg"></a>Je déguste ensuite les vins de l’Italien du groupe, la <a href="http://www.cantineduva.com/">Cantine d’Uva</a>. <a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/88/13/71856/14608637.jpg"><img border="0" width="101" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/88/13/71856/14608637_p.jpg" alt="tintilia" height="150" style="float:right;margin:0 0 5px 5px;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Angelo d’Uva trebbiano 2006 :</strong> nez très expressif. Matière très belle, ample, charnue, riche. C&#8217;est vraiment bon!</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Tintilia del Molise 2004 :</strong> nez discret sur les fruits mûrs et les notes de benjoin. Bouche ronde, aux tannins très doux. Longue finale. Très différent, mais beau aussi.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Pour finir, je vais voir le domaine qu’a fondé l’oncle de Stéphane Tissot dans le Brulhois , et dont sa fille Magali et son gendre Ludovic s’occupent aujourd’hui : le <a href="http://domainedupech.free.fr/">domaine du Pech</a>. </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Domaine du Pech 2002</strong> (merlot / Cabernet sauvignon, élevé en foudre) : nez frais et fruité. Bouche pleine, mûre et riche. Très belle fraîcheur. Gourmand au possible. Bien ! <a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/02/97/71856/14608716.jpg"><img border="0" width="121" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/02/97/71856/14608716_p.jpg" alt="Ludovic" height="150" style="float:left;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Domaine du Pech 2003 :</strong> nez mûr avec une pointe végétale fraîche. Bouche ample, mûre, avec des tannins encre trop fermes. A attendre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Badinerie du Pech 2002</strong> (élevé en barrique) : nez confit avec toujours cette « pointe de vert ». Bouche plus ample que les précédentes, avec beaucoup de fraîcheur. Dommage que les tannins doux au départ se durcissent en finale. A attendre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Badinerie du Pech 2003 :</strong> nez très mûr, avec des notes de réduction. Bouche bien mûre, moelleuse, avec (toujours) des tannins encore bien fermes. A attendre, lui aussi.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Un peu plus tard, je suis revenu sur les nouveautés 2006 de <strong>Marc Houtin</strong>, maintenant en bouteille.<a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/42/31/71856/14606676.jpg"> </a><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/11/71/71856/14608731.jpg"><img border="0" width="105" src="http://storage.canalblog.com/11/71/71856/14608731_p.jpg" alt="marc" height="150" style="float:right;margin:0 0 5px 5px;" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Anjou blanc Fragile 2006:</strong> nez sur la pomme mûre et le tilleul. Bouche ronde et fraîche, avec une sensation de mâche qui s&#8217;accentue en finale. A attendre quelques mois: le vin doit digérer sa mise&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><a target="_blank" href="http://storage.canalblog.com/02/80/71856/14608820.jpg"></a><strong>Vin de Table Merci</strong> (moelleux 100% sauvignon): la robe est plus dorée que celle du millésime précédent. Nez sur l&#8217;ananas et les agrumes confits. Bouche moelleuse, riche, mais avec de la fraîcheur grâce à une acidité tonique. Jolie finale évoquant le pamplemousse rose. C&#8217;est bon! </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Comme vous l&#8217;avez remarqué sur les photos ci-dessus, il y avait aussi un très beau buffet préparé par un restaurant local, <a href="http://hotel-restaurant-les3cedres.com/c">les 3 cèdres</a>, aussi gourmand qu&#8217;esthétique, avec des accords parfois étonnants. Le plateau de fromage était vraiment top, et les desserts légers et gourmands. Bravo, chef!</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Ayant une autre belle dégustation le lendemain matin, je suis parti vers 23h15 (une heure de route à faire&#8230;). Je ne sais pas à quelle heure ça a fini, mais on pouvait croire  que ça durerait jusqu&#8217;au bout de la nuit, tellement on sentait le plaisir qu&#8217;avaient tous les participants à être ensemble. Une très belle soirée, vraiment! </p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal">Et merci pour le cadeau souvenir ;o)</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><em>Et encore plein de bonnes choses <a href="http://boiremanger.canalblog.com">ICI</a>&#8230;</em></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Depuis quelques années se multiplient en marge du salon Vinexpo, ce que l&#8217;on nomme des &#8220;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><font size="3">Depuis quelques années se multiplient en marge du salon Vinexpo, ce que l&#8217;on nomme des &#8220;off&#8221;. Ce type d&#8217;événement représente en général un courant de pensée et des vignerons qui ont une vision commune (les biodynamistes organisé par Nicolas Joly, les vins tendance &#8220;natures&#8221; qui a lieu au château Moulin Pey-Labrie) et un autre &#8220;off&#8221; qui se nomme les gens de métier qui avait lieu cette année au château Falfas en côtes de Bourg.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3">Photo ci-dessous, Nady Foucault entrain de faire déguster ses vins au château Falfas.<br />
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<p><font size="3">Et puis les nouveaux de cette année (haut les vins  ou en anglais &#8220;wines up&#8221;, qui a pour point commun que tous les vignerons ont le même importateur américain et &#8220;contains sulfites&#8230;mais pas trop&#8221; qui représente  une autre mouvance.  </font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Pour dire la vérite, nous passons très peu de temps dans le salon Vinexpo, car on préfère faire la tournée des &#8220;off&#8221;. Beaucoup de vignerons font la même  chose que nous et vont déguster ce que font leur confrères et consoeurs. Francis Boulard (à la pause) exposait  au off &#8220;Wines up / haut les vins&#8221;.</font></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Cette année nous avons trouvé que &#8220;haut les vins/wines up&#8221; était très bien organisé, la salle où avait lieu l&#8217;événement au château de Cujac était vraiment agréable et la sélection des vignerons  impeccable. Etaient présents entre autre: </font></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Mireille Daret de Sauternes</font></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Eric et Christine Nicolas de Janières (On voit sur la photo ci-dessous, Eric Nicolas, cheveux blanc, en discussion avec manu et éric Bernardin, représentant en vin sur la Gironde).</font></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Jean-Christophe Bott, du domaine Bott-Geyl en Alsace (photo ci-dessous)</font><img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/10/69/42/dscn2704.jpg" class="CtreTexte" /></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Patrick Baudoin de La loire</font></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Eric Texier, négociant vinificateur de la vallée du rhône et Hélène Tibon, du Mas de Libian en Rhône ardéchoise.</font></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Je ne vous ferai pas la liste entière,car ils étaient 30 vignerons. </font></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">La photo ci-dessous a été prise au château Falfas où avait lieu le &#8220;off&#8221; des gens de métier. On a trouvé que le lieu n&#8217;était pas idéal pour ce genre de manifestion, on préfère quand tous les vignerons sont réunis dans une même salle. </font></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><font size="3"><font size="3">Ces salons permettent de renconter des vignerons intéressants qui seraient noyés dans vinexpo.</font></font></p>
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