This area is dedicated to wine professionals including sommeliers, restaurateurs, wine store owners importers and trainers. Welcome to your very own BIVB website where you can find all the tips and tools you need. You will find documentation, photography, training tools and all kinds of other useful information here to facilitate your search. You can also browse our events and training calendar and you are welcome to attend any that appeal. If you require any further information then don’t hesitate to contact us!
To illustrate your presentations, sales tools and wine lists check out the BIVB photo library!
The BIVB photo library is an interactive tool containing around 8,000 photos and maps, and is also available in English.
The library is easy to navigate to find the images you need. Once you’ve registered, add the required visuals to your basket and place your order. You’ll receive the images in the definition you requested via email.
It is easy to navigate the site through the various themes, including wine tourism, vineyard, food and wine combinations and heritage.
You can access the library by clicking here. (You will need to register in order to browse the library) tt
As a professional market influencer for Bourgogne wines, you not only enjoy preferential rates, but also access to a range of documents that are free to download.
Documentation, maps, technical or decorative posters, aprons, corkscrews, drop-stops, pens and sparkling wine stoppers – all this and more is available from the BIVB boutique. Place your order online or via the BIVB.
Click here to access the online boutique
The “Downloads” area is where you will find all the documents produced by the BIVB, in French and other languages, which are available for download. They include brochures, maps, posters, training tools, logos and advertising campaigns. Everything is organized by language to facilitate your search.
Watch our new video: “Bourgogne, the Birthplace of Terroir”, winner of the “Imagination & Création” prize at the 24th edition of the Oneovidéo festival at the Imaginarium on 17 October 2017. In eight minutes and four languages – French, English, Chinese, and Japanese – “Bourgogne, the Birthplace of Terroir” takes us deep into the heart of the Bourgogne terroir. This short film explains through 3D animated sequences how geology has shaped Bourgogne and its celebrated Climats. It is the perfect tool for explaining, raising awareness, training, and refreshing your teams or even your customers on this complex subject.
Head over to our YouTube channel right now to watch the film and the rest of the collection
In the Bourgogne region, taking time is a way of life, and a skill that is handed down from generation to generation. Here, time is a key element, an indispensible guarantee of our expertise.
Emotion, authenticity, generosity, and depth – all these words characterize the wines of Bourgogne but they are not easy to illustrate. But in under two minutes, the In praise of time and those who respect it
video will do just that.
For a range of applications including screensavers, homepages and training events, this video will encourage you to take time and share it with the wines of the Bourgogne region.
⇒ Watch the “In praise of time and those who respect it” video:
► In French, by clicking here
► In English, see below
► In Japanese, by clicking here
The Bourgogne Wine Board offers this free tool that will allow you to locate all the Bourgogne AOCs (Régionale, Village, Village Premier Cru, Grand Cru) and producing villages of Bourgogne.
Developed with the help of the INAO database and the cadastral resources, these maps reveal the different levels of appellation as well as the Climats and Lieux-dits present on the perimeter of each village.
The tool allows you to view and download online:
84 maps of appellations
396 maps of producing villages
Maps of the 14 additional geographical denominations within the Bourgogne AOC
Maps of 27 additional geographical denominations within the Mâcon AOC
Three ways of searching:
- By village
- By appellation
- By level of appellation
Interactive, it also allows users to access other contents on an appellation (texts, photos, etc.) or to find the list of estates or festivals registered on the Bourgogne Wines website.
To help you get started with this tool, we suggest that you watch those tutorials. They show all of the features:
- Bourgogne Maps: discover the search methods: click here
- Bourgogne Maps: discover all the features: click here
Do not hesitate to consult them!
Click and test this tool: