Le Mois des Climats: Your must-visit festival for this summer!
Le Mois des Climats, or Climats Month, is THE event for discovering the Climats of Bourgogne, and to experience the UNESCO World Heritage-listed architecture, landscape, and vines from a fun new perspective. There are almost 60 fun, unusual, or gourmet events on the program, which began on 17 June, and rolls out across the region from Dijon to Nuits-Saint-Georges, Beaune, Santenay, and down to the Saône-et-Loire and the vines of Maranges.
What makes the Mois des Climats so special is that more than half the events on the program are organized by companies, artists, non-profits, winegrowers, shopkeepers, and tourism professionals, and these run alongside those laid on by the Association des Climats and local communities. The program changes every year with the new vintage, and can throw up some real gems…
Climats en Fête is an event within an event, and this year, to celebrate the anniversary of the Climats’ inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, a special event will run on 2 & 3 July at the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin in Dijon. Join us for this fun-packed festive weekend of workshops and visits, along with a fabulous open-air banquet.
Chablis is simple to understand: One varietal, one color, one dry white wine. But this apparent simplicity hides great diversity. To underline this and to encourage buyers, importers, and restaurant owners to widen out their Chablis offering, the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) has been working with its PR agency in Japan and Hong Kong on wine and music pairings.
In the past, the Chablis wine producers have worked together with photographers, jewelers, designers, and video artists to express the sensations and emotions experienced during a tasting of Chablis wines through their creations.
But this time, in Japan, the BIVB invited the composer Shotaro Matsunami to translate what he feels when he tastes Chablis wines into his music. He has composed four new pieces, one for each Chablis appellation, which were presented to the press on 31 May.
==> To listen, click here.
In Hong Kong, wine journalist Ronny Lau has compiled four playlists, one per appellation.
They are available on Spotify from the Pure Chablis Wines account.
Every Wednesday at 5pm, the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) has been releasing a new video across its social media channels. The Bourgogne Road Trip series features Marie and Alain from the Destination Camping-Car YouTube channel, exploring the 13 Bourgogne plus geographical denomination appellations.
If you’re looking for ideas for a summer getaway, then this is the series for you. These short videos, no more than eight minutes long, are full of ideas about things to do and places to visit, from vineyards to more gastronomic destinations, to architectural sites and sporting activities.
Along their travels, Marie and Alain meet many winegrowers and explore the surroundings of these appellations, including Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre, Bourgogne Côtes d'Or, and Bourgogne Côtes du Couchois. They explore ancient Roman villas, medieval chateaus, majestic cliffs, chapels, and other religious centers, by moped, on foot, by bike, and more. There is something for everyone, along with plenty of regional specialties and suggestions from chefs for the perfect dishes to partner with local wines.
The BIVB was the driver of the project along with the Syndicat des Bourgognes. They opted for this format in order to offer a different way to discover the wines of Bourgogne. Bourgogne plus geographical denomination appellations offer a wonderful playground for Bourgogne wine lovers and tourists alike, since they cover almost the entire region from the Grand Auxerrois to the Côte Chalonnaise.
After a first meet-up in London, the Bourgogne wine industry is heading to North America at the end of June, and on to Tokyo on 13 July.
These events, reserved for wine industry professionals and journalists, offer a real immersion into Bourgogne wines, with workshops and tastings in the presence of winemakers, except in Japan where, for practical reasons, importers will present the wines. The events will put the focus on Bourgogne wines with a very good quality-price-pleasure ratio.
Producers and industry professionals will enjoy a warm welcome, encouraging exchanges and conviviality. At each meeting, the spotlight will be on the right bank and left bank Climats of the Chablis Premier Cru AOC, as well as Bourgogne and Mâcon plus geographical denomination appellations. In New York, there will be a special focus on the Bourgogne Aligoté appellation.
A press conference entitled “Bourgogne wines face their future", is held just prior to each event. Presented by the Presidents of the Marketing and Communication Commission of the BIVB, Anne Moreau (Canada and United States) and for the next date, Michel Barraud (Japan), it explores results by market but also focuses on the current issues facing scientific research in the vineyard.
Bourgogne is full of hidden gems and exploring them is a veritable treasure hunt. But now, X marks the spot, and you can find them all on Bourgogne Maps.
This online tool, developed by the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB), is available free of charge on the www.vins-bourgogne.fr website in the Maps section at the bottom of the page.
You can explore maps of all 84 Bourgogne AOCs, including the 27 Mâcon plus and 13 Bourgogne plus geographical denomination AOCs, including their production villages. It’s ideal for finding your way around.
Designed using the Institut National de l'Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) database and cadastral resources, Bourgogne Maps allow you to discover the different appellation levels of Bourgogne wines, along with their Climats and lieux-dits, from Régionale AOCs right up to Grand Cru AOCs!
This free and interactive tool offers plenty of additional content about each appellation, including texts and photos, along with info about estates, wine houses, and cellars, plus details about wine-related events. You can also share the information you find as all the maps are in a printable PDF format.
UK: A double record for Bourgogne wine sales in 2021
In 2021, Bourgogne wines represented 13% of the volume of French AOCs exported to the UK, for 16.6% of revenue in this category.
UK is the second biggest market for Bourgogne wines by volume and in terms of revenue.
For the past 20 years, growth in exports of Bourgogne wines to the UK has mainly focused on white wines, which accounted for 77% of 75cl bottles sold, or 13 million bottles, worth €113.8 million euros (up 16.9% over 2020; 56% of revenue).
This incredible growth, due since the start to the strong reputation of Chablis wines, is now also being driven by the wines from the Mâcon Régionale AOC.
Bourgogne wines have shown a third consecutive year of growth in the UK, up 3% by volume, the equivalent to 487,000 bottles, and up 23% in terms of revenue for €38 million, compared to 2020.
On this market, driven by white wines, reds accounted for 19% of all bottles of Bourgogne wines exported in 2021, equivalent to 3.2 million 75cl bottles worth €85.8 million. This continues the strong growth seen in 2020, and they were up 42.7% by volume and up 39.3% in terms of revenue. This sets a double record for both volume and revenue over the last 10 years.
2022: An early vintage is taking shape in Bourgogne.
May saw temperatures higher than normal, leading to rapid flowering. Harvesting of grapes for still wines is now predicted to begin on 25 August.
As we said in the May edition of Bourgogne Wines Direct, the vines have been growing at a frantic pace, mainly due to the high temperatures that have prevailed since 12 April.
Abundant sunshine and high temperatures for the season are encouraging this rapid pace, which has a direct impact on winegrowers’ workload.
The very first flowers were observed in mid-May, which was an early date similar to that observed in 2020, give or take a few days. This precocity surprised everyone, after a rather late budburst.
Flowering took place in very good conditions, thanks to significant sunshine and ideal temperatures between 20-25°C.
As a result, 2022 seems to be well on the way to joining the club of the earliest vintages, after 2020, 2011 and 2007.
If we consider that harvesting typically starts between 90-100 days after flowering, and if the weather holds, the secateurs should come into action in the last ten days of August for still wines, while those for Crémant de Bourgogne will be picked around mid-August.
Winemakers and Maisons
Prosper Maufoux opens a restaurant at the Château de Saint-Aubin in partnership with starred chefs Édouard Mignot and Émilie Rey.
The Château de Saint-Aubin is home to the Prosper Maufoux wine house and was completely renovated by the Piffaut family in 2021. The chateau is located in the heart of the village of Saint-Aubin, overlooking a vineyard. Thanks to the new PROSPER restaurant, it now offers a fresh vision of Bourgogne hospitality through a refined gastronomic experience on the Côte de Beaune.
This new gourmet destination is being managed by Édouard Mignot and Émilie Rey from the one-Michelin-starred Ed'Em* restaurant. They have created a locally inspired menu in harmony with the Bourgogne wines produced by the Prosper Maufoux wine house.
With this restaurant, Prosper Maufoux is paying tribute to its founding father, a passionate man who left his job as a notary in 1860 to create his own wine house in the heart of the vines.
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