Coteaux du Languedoc Terrasses du Larzac

Domaine de la Soufrandière, Mâconnais

La clef des terroirs

http://www.laclefdesterroirs.com | La Clef des Terroirs est un film documentaire sur le vin en biodynamie imaginé et réalisé par Guillaume Bodin.
L'agriculture traverse une période de crise écologique et industrielle, il est grand temps d'apporter des solutions pour l'avenir de notre planète.
Les acteurs: Bret Brothers, Pierre Masson, Thibault Liger Belair, Thierry Germain, Aubert de Villaine, Richard Leroy, Olivier Jullien, Jean-Baptiste Granier, Sylvain Loichet, Dominique Massenot...
Réalisation: http://www.universditvin.com

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Benjamin Roffet at Château Pichon-Longueville Baron, Pauillac

Pichon-Longueville Baron vineyards

Champs de la Truffière

One more star joined our collection yesterday... Champs de la Truffière 2008 from Domaine du Deffends in Provence. Blend of 55% cabernet sauvignon and 45% syrah gives a wine with character. After an hour in decanter the wine had blackcurrant, tobacco and black truffles aromas on the nose suggesting a certain evolution  and complexity of flavours. In the mouth black fruits and  licorice were perfectly married by the tannins. Vintage 2008 is ready to be drunk now but will still be great in 4 or 5 years time.
The wine has spent 2 years of ageing in a tank and 400 and 600 liter barrels plus one year in a bottle.



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Renaissance des Appellations 2013

Renaissance des Appellations 2013 at Grenier St Jean, Angers, Loire Valley was a great place today to taste organic and biodynamic wines. I had a pleasure to taste wines with Catherine and Phillipe Delesvaux from Domaine Phillipe Delesvaux in Loire Valley and with Jacky Barthelmé from Domaine Albert Mann in Alsace. 

Salon des vins de Loire tomorrow will be a chance to taste more wines and maybe find some new producers to add to Vinovino's portfolio.

Benjamin Roffet

Millésime Bio 2013 - organic wines show's 20th anniversary

Millésime Bio 2013 is taking place for the 20th time in Montpellier. Almost 700 wine producers from around the world are presenting their organic wines. There are many exhibitors from France where organic winegrowing has never before been so popular. France is today second after Spain biggest producer of vin bio from organically grown grapes. There are three French regions holding  two-thirds of the surface
area in certified vineyards: Languedoc-Roussillon, followed by the Provence-Côte d’Azur region and Aquitaine. The organic sector is expanding because there is more and more demand for it.