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2021, a very promising year

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A year in the vigneyard : winter pruning

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A year in the vineyard: the harvest

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A year in the vineyard: ground work

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David ZIELINSKI – Export Manager

David Zielinski has been Export Manager at Vignobles & Compagnie for several years. He shares with us his experience and his vision of the Winery. 💭

– What are the values/philosophy of Vignobles & Compagnie for you? –

“The primary value of Vignobles & Compagnie is its challenger spirit. It is the ability to do a lot with a little. It is tireless.
Another important value is fairness. At Vignobles & Compagnie, all people are considered equally. Success is a group success, not an individual one.
What also characterises Vignobles & Compagnie is the emulation created by trust, complacency and sharing.”

– Which ones do you share with Vignobles & Compagnie? –

“I especially share the spirit of challenge with Vignobles & Compagnie. I am challenged by success and constant improvement.
Fairness for all is also fundamental. I apply equity between all for global trust.”

– How do you apply them on a daily basis? –

“I apply them on a daily basis by loyally representing all the people in the company in front of the customers.
The challenger spirit is found in the conquest of new markets.
For this, it is natural for me to adapt to different personality types internally and externally for overall success.”

AMANDINE GUERIN, FRENCH COMMERCIAL

Amandine Guerin is a salesperson France, South-East sector at Vignobles & Compagnie since 2018. She shares with us her vision of her missions within the Winery and her teamwork. 💭

– What are the values of the company for you –

“Vignobles & Compagnie is a company on a human scale with a unifying spirit. Our authenticity and commitment to our winemaking partners, our customers and all of our employees are omnipresent. We have a charter that reflects our relationship of continuity, trust and respect. As winegrowers ourselves, we also know the challenges of managing a business and protecting the environment.

We value our appellations and our terroir through an environmental approach for an eco-responsible agriculture. Innovative and daring, we strive to be better every day, we have created several product lines with complementary identities to better meet the needs of our customers. Quality standards and our experience of more than half a century lead us to excellence.

– Which ones do you share with the company –

“I share all of my company’s values in a very obvious way because they allow me to be in line with my position and my employees. I think it is fundamental that I embody our values so that we can share them naturally with our clients. I often say: “we are not like other merchants” because we are at the crossroads of all the actors of our terroir. In sales, the relationship is essential, the exchanges with our customers must be sincere and committed. Environmental commitment is fundamental to more sustainable consumption as is team spirit because knowing how to work together is our success. ”

– If so, how do you apply them on a daily basis –

“Through valuing the work of the teams to our customers, my solidarity and positivity.”

CORINNE GRÉGOIRE, SALES ADMINISTRATION FRANCE

Corinne Gregoire has been head of France sales administration for more than 25 years at Vignobles & Compagnie. Today, she gives us her impressions of the work and team spirit within the Winery.

– What are the values of the company for you? –

“Vignobles & Compagnie is for me above all respect. That which we have towards our customers, our suppliers and among ourselves, internally at the staff level. Honesty, integrity and ethics are also fundamentals of our Winery. We take our responsibilities and we do not cheat towards the customers. Everyone is committed to the permanent search for quality, particularly through our work with our partner producers, and the search for new collaborations. based on listening and relational work. We are attentive to our customers, always ready to respond as best as possible to their requests, whether in terms of wine profile, packaging or other. Finally Vignobles & Compagnie , it is a commitment to the environment, through reasoned industrial practices. All this unites us, in a team spirit which is not an empty word here, the collective search for solutions, the taking into account of ideas of each not.”

– Which ones do you share with the company? –

“All these values seem important to me even if I favor those related to people: the size of the company makes it possible to forge a quality link and easy communication between the different actors and services and we can feel concerned and empowered by all of the processes. This has kept us motivated for 25 years! I also greatly appreciate the respect and fairness which guide our daily relations. I am also particularly in tune with The honesty and respect which guide our relations to our customers. ”

– If so, how do you apply them on a daily basis? –

I think that each of us makes the social bond live on a daily basis, we try to communicate as much and as best as possible to avoid errors or conflicts and thus promote cohesion. I also believe in practicing and advocating sincerity in our interactions with our clients.

VIGNOBLES & COMPAGNIE which is part of the great family of Wineries du Rhône, asserts itself more and more, over the vintages, in its role of winegrower committed to the service of the terroirs and the people who make up the strength and character of the Rhône Valley.

After this unprecedented year, which will have marked all those involved in viticulture, we therefore reaffirm our support for those who shape the wine-growing landscape of our region. A societal struggle that has its deep roots in our daily commitment to sustainable viticulture, and our desire to maintain the right balance between man and nature.

Our actions precede words with actions undertaken for a long time and which will continue throughout 2021. Despite the crisis and the difficulties of the sector, we remain convinced that our committed and eco-citizen approach is in order. things, to better promote our operations, and continue our quest for quality and sharing.

PRUNING AT THE CHÂTEAU DES SOURCES

In winter, the work in the vineyard does not stop! After the harvest and an autumn period spent in the cellar for winemaking, now is the time to set out again to survey the vines for pruning.

The principle of winter pruning

The pruning of the vine is based on the selection of buds also called eyes. Some will not give grapes while others will be very fertile. The most fertile buds are those that appear on one-year-old wood (the one that grew the previous year). We are going to pre-prune first, which will make the pruning itself easier.

Pruning is meticulous work, first of all you have to remove the dead wood and the stems that grow at the base of the old wood. Next, focus on the stems that have grown over the past year. For a perfect size (or almost) our winegrowers cut the stems leaving at least 3 buds (eyes) per stem. It is they who will be the most fertile and who will give grapes. Warning ! If you cut off the entire stalk you won’t have a grape. Over the years, the winegrowers will make sure to remove the old wood to make room for new growth.

It’s the experience that speaks volumes…

Pruning is also a point of view, a reflection, a strategy specific to each winegrower according to the yields and the desired quality, of the grape variety and of the terroir.

The Château des Sources vineyard is thus ready to fully enter into winter. The work carried out throughout the year: the reasoned management of the vineyard, the training, the work of the grounds with grassing and charutage, the pruning … thus make it possible to face the seasons and prepare the following ones, always in research of the best balance between human intervention and letting nature take its course.

A new cycle begins again and we are happy to be able to share this new vintage in the making with you …

HVE / HAUTE VALEUR ENVIRONNEMENTALE

HVE recognition for a Domain guarantees that the agricultural practices used on an entire farm:

Preserve the natural ecosystem
Minimize pressure on the environment (soil, water, air, landscape, etc.)

This is a rewarding statement, provided for by the rural and maritime fishing code, in the same way as “mountain product” or “farm product”. Thus, it is a voluntary approach that is implemented by farmers to promote their good practices!

As a result, Winerie Vignobles & Compagnie is strongly committed to sustainable development in its vineyard. It uses cultivation methods that are more respectful of the environment and selects suppliers who are also involved in this process. All our wines are committed to sustainable development and HVE approaches, to the delight of our consumers …

Each at our level we can get involved. Recycling, preservation of natural resources, our consumption habits, every gesture counts.

Implementation of environmental certification?

The CNCE has defined the control plans defining the precise framework allowing the certification of farms for each level of the system. Levels of environmental certification:

level 1: compliance with the environmental requirements of cross-compliance and performance by the farmer of an assessment of the farm with regard to the level 2 benchmark or level 3 indicators
level 2: compliance with a benchmark comprising 16 requirements that are efficient for the environment
level 3: qualified as “High Environmental Value”, is based on results indicators relating to biodiversity, phytosanitary strategy, fertilization and irrigation management.

Find out more via the website of the Ministry of Agriculture or the national association for the development of HVE certification.

LA FONT DE SALIGNAN ESTATE

For 25 years, solid links have been forged with Rhone winegrowers.

Thus, VIGNOBLES & COMPAGNIE can now count on 260 hectares of vines in partnership throughout the southern Rhône Valley. From these partnerships are born quality wines reflecting the terroir and the sharing of knowledge and skills. VIGNOBLES & COMPAGNIE resolutely turned towards the southern Rhône, is committed alongside emerging appellations as today with the winemakers of the Cairanne appellation, the latest Crus des Côtes du Rhône in 2016.

New domain to become partner winemaker of our Winery, La Font de Salignan in Cairanne under the leadership of Nicolas Flavien. Old goblets of century-old Grenaches, an exceptional terroir, passion and elbow grease, a domain to be followed alongside Vignobles & Compagnie.

Cairanne, an exceptional terroir

Backing onto the south of a hilly massif that separates the Aygues and Ouvèze valleys, the appellation extends over the sole town of Cairanne in the north-west of Vaucluse. Three large groups share the 1,088 hectares and each participate by their typicity in the elaboration of elegant and complex wines: the Aygues terraces to the west, the Miocene hills to the north, and the garrigue to the south of the village. Cairanne benefits from a dry Mediterranean climate, characterized by a lot of sunshine and a strong influence of the Mistral, which promotes the good health of the vines throughout the year.

Find out more about the Cairanne appellation.

THE 2020 VINTAGE IS UNDERWAY

Extremely early harvest for this 2020 vintage, with the first harvests of our Viogniers at the very end of August. Then in mid-September for our reds … 2020 therefore never ceases to amaze us.

A complicated year for men, with the international events we know, but also for winegrowers with a nature that has not stopped racing for months. A mild spring, a few welcome rains, a hot summer, an early veraison … And here we are, harvesting our first grapes at the end of August! An exception that could become a habit if climate change persists for years to come.

The Château des Sources, in the heart of Costières de Nîmes, has therefore not escaped the rule, and it is under a bright sun that the first berries returned to the cellar for the development of this future vintage 2020. To preserve the freshness on the berries, and in the bottle afterwards, we therefore harvest at night the whites but also the reds that will be used for our future rosés (if need be remembered, pink grapes do not exist ;-).

Freshness and fruity are the key words and our teams do not hesitate to get up at dawn to develop gourmet and elegant wines.

The reds: Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, waited a little longer to reach perfect maturity. Our teams closely follow the evolution of the berries to reach alcoholic and phenolic maturity in the right balance, which will allow us to best reveal our terroir.

To do this ? Tasting in the rows for each grape variety, each plot. In situ tests supplemented by more detailed laboratory analyzes. When science and know-how complement each other in a quest for excellence …

The 2020 vintage is underway … to be continued!

THE GREAT EFFERVESCENCE OF SPRING

Spring 2020 in the Rhône Valley is more than lenient for an accelerated development of the vegetation. As a result, the men are confined, but the vineyard flourishes under the first rays of the sun and the welcome rains at the beginning of May.

Thus, our teams in the field have continued to be active since the start of confinement. Ground word is indeed time-consuming, but constitutes a good alternative to the use of vineyard inputs while respecting the environment and the values promoted by Vignobles & Compagnie. At the Château des Sources we also use it to remove grass from the plots, but also to improve soil properties.

Soil and vineyard work

To the work of the soil are joined the work of the vine as the suckering. It is the great effervescence of spring, with in places almost 15 days ahead of the season. Our teams take great care of the very young plots of the Domaine, which our four-legged roommates love. In 2019, we planted 1ha25 of Grenache noir to complete the blends of our Château des Sources vintages. Very young plants that need a well ventilated, draining, living soil …

In the field

The various works on our vineyard in Costières de Nîmes during this spring period are therefore:
Epamprage : horticultural operation consisting in ridding the vines of the twigs (also called vines). This helps to promote the ripening of the fruit branches carrying future grapes.

Hoeing: operation which consists in loosening the surface layer of the soil around the vines with a hoe. An action that promotes the penetration of water into the soil. Evaporation of water from the soil is also limited. In fact, hoeing creates conditions that prevent water from rising to the surface and breaking cracks that appear in the soil when it is very dry. The ridging: an operation that protects the vine stock by bringing soil to the feet.

Ferti-irrigation: a simple process that involves direct supply of nutrients to irrigation water to allow them to be rapidly absorbed by crops.

To be continued…

Team V&Co

Team V&Co

Team V&Co

2021, a very promising year

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A year in the vineyard: the harvest

A year in the vineyard: ground work

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