• DOCU ROMANÉE CONTI : BRAVO-MAZA GAGNE SON PARI

    par | Mai 4, 2011

    DANIEL J. BERGER

    Diffusé à quatorze reprises sur France Télévisions en janvier et février, le documentaire de Thomas Bravo-Maza sur la Romanée Conti a été vu par plusieurs millions de téléspectateurs en France ! Et la distribution DVD en Europe débute en juillet.

    Ce documentaire nous touche d’abord par sa simplicité et son évidence : Thomas-Bravo (ci-contre) a réussi une ode visuelle.

    Passionné très tôt par le vin parce que c’est « un sujet sans limites, jamais terminé », en quête des nouvelles impressions qui surgissent à chaque rencontre de vignerons, il réalise des sujets sur le vin pour la Télévision Suisse Romande avec à la fois la nécessité d’efficacité télévisuelle et un « esprit » cinéma, dont il est proche depuis sa jeunesse, ayant cotoyé, outre son ami Cedric Klapisch, Francis Ford Coppola, Alain Cavalier en 1986, par Erling MandelmannClaude Chabrol qui lui ont chacun donné leurs conseils, ou Alain Cavalier (à droite en 1986), prévu pour réaliser le film et qui n’a pu être libre aux dates du tournage et lui en a naturellement légué la réalisation.

    Thomas Bravo-Maza a parlé avec lui de son refus de refaire les prises, notamment dans sa série de portraits de femmes-artisanes (1), discipline qu’il s’est appropriée : « même si je suis méticuleux et jamais content du résultat, donc tenté de refaire, je n’y ai pas cédé » dit-il, « j’ai voulu qu’on sente les choses sans être démonstratif, ni à l’image, ni dans le commentaire ». Interview.

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  • JULIETTE MONMOUSSEAU OF BOUVET-LADUBAY IN SAUMUR, LOIRE

    par | Mai 3, 2011

    By SHUBASH ARORA, THE INDIAN WINE ACADEMY Newsletter

    While a majority of the Royal Challengers Bangalore supporters would have downed cases of Kingfisher Beer, Juliette Monmousseau, Deputy Managing Director and Exports Head of Loire Valley-based Bouvet-Ladubay in Saumur, also owned by Vijay Mallya, must have celebrated with a bottle of Bouvet Brut when they defeated the Delhi Daredevils.

    Juliette MonmousseauJuliette Monmousseau is the elder of two daughters of Patrice Monmousseau, Managing Director of Bouvet-Ladubay.  A small town girl, she is now the fifth generation of the Monmousseau family working for the company.  But she has not been in the wine business from the beginning as one might expect.

    After graduating from the European School of Graphic Design in Angers where she was born (Ashvini Avate was the first Indian woman who had done her postgraduate work in the town University), she moved to Paris at 21 and started off as a trainee graphic designer in an advertising firm.  While her father paid for her school and flat rent, she worked part-time at Bouvet-Ladubay winery for five years to earn her pocket money.  She organized group visits, tastings and also worked as a sales person at the wine shop. (suite…)

  • PORTUGAL WINE EXPORTS AT THE ‘MOMENT DE VÉRITÉ’

    par | Mai 2, 2011

    By PATRICK DU GENESTOUX

    The Portuguese wine industry has undertaken a powerful communications effort in Europe to explain that their rise in the world ranking is key to an increase in importance of of Portuguese wines, even if costly during the crisis years in 2008 and 2009. At last in 2010 their exports increased of more than 16% in value and 9% in volume with an average price increase of 7%.
    The media were invited to international meetings in Porto last December when the Portuguese wine industry strategies was becoming to be beneficial, and also in March in Celorico da Beira, to be briefed on Portuguese wine export and individual region potential.  We attended both.

    MY LOOK AT PORTUGUESE WINE EXPORT STATISTICS

    The opening session of the 1rst International Wine Meeting and Tasting Event held in Northern Portugal on the 17th of March was introduced by an interesting presentation of Doctora Edite Azenha, Chairperson of the Portuguese Vine and Wine Institute, commenting on the performance of their wine trade balance in 2010.

    Dra Edite’s presentation was full of optimism. According to her Portuguese wines and wine firms are increasingly recognized worldwide on the quality aspects, some of them among the “ World’s best 100” or 200 of various classifications, with notes frequently above 90.  Then she came to an in deep discussion of the Portuguese foreign trade figures for 2010, providing material for stimulating thoughts on the wine market segmentation.

    In 2010, Portugese wine exports grew 9% in volume (2,6 million hectolitres) and 16 % in value  (€650 million). The increase was good with PDO wines (Protected Designation of Origin, the equivalent of the French AOP, Appellation d’Origine Protégée) which grew 12 % in unit value, reaching a “psychological gate » of €3.00 per liter (€2.25 per bottle).

    Port Wine Institute Inspectors on the Porto waterfronts during the forties.

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