Global Reference Framework for wine sustainability launched
The tool is designed to achieve a more consistent and robust approach to sustainability...
The tool is designed to achieve a more consistent and robust approach to sustainability...
Leading retailers commit to reducing average wine bottle weight...
Beyond organic, it’s about healthy soils and ecosystems, as Rupert Joy explains...
The letter highlights the environmental impact of glass manufacturing and recycling...
Rupert Joy on looking beyond the glass bottle...
The symposium focused on the challenges presented by climate change...
Remodelling viticultural practices in the battle against climate change...
New Regenerative Viticulture Foundation launched...
Making glass wine bottles lighter is an easy way to reduce wine’s carbon emissions – yet it remains a weighty issue for the industry...
Online event sees big names from the across the wine world lead discussions on major issues...
Rupert Joy gives an overview of the issue, weighing the pros and cons of an SO2-free approach
Industry needs to lead by example...
What are the measures being taken to find a lasting solution...?
The former US Vice president addressed the wine and climate change conference...
As well-heeled investors target prime vineyards, and new inheritance laws bite, RUPERT JOY asks if Burgundy’s small domaines can survive in family hands
Terroir is one of those buzz-words that everyone in the wine world embraces, but what does it really mean? And does it really have the effect on wines that producers claim? Rupert Joy digs deep to find out
What actually makes wine age? And why do some evolve better than others? Rupert Joy explores the multi-layered mysteries of maturation
The controversial proposals for reforming the French AOC system are to be presented at Vinexpo next week.
Around 2,100 hectares of vines in France have been uprooted under the EU-backed incentive scheme for 2004-05, which ends on 15 June.
Burgundy winemaker Philippe Engel died of a heart attack last week while on holiday in Tahiti.
More than 400ha of vines in Bergerac were destroyed by a violent hailstorm on Friday afternoon.
Wine producers in the Île de France region are aiming to attract tourists to their newly-revived vineyards.
The Paris Mint is issuing a series of commemorative silver medals to celebrate this year’s 150th anniversary of the 1855 classification of Médoc & Sauternes Grands Crus Classés.
French winemakers are fearful of another heatwave after an unusually rainless autumn and winter and unseasonally dry spring weather.
Financial incentives to encourage Bordeaux wine growers to uproot their uneconomic vines are to be doubled.
Champagne is planning to set ambitious targets for reducing the region’s carbon dioxide emissions.
The French government has announced a €70m aid package to help struggling wine producers.
French appellations chief René Renou is determined to push his reforms through – and has slammed the great regions for believing they have ‘divine right’ not to change.