Here are 20 personalities who make French wine and will shape its future, we are betting on it. You have until Wednesday, January 15 to give your help to the person you prefer to embody and inspire the wine industry.
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ew vintage than 2024 in the French vineyard… To embody its multiple challenges and its many ups and downs, the editorial staff of Vitisphere and of the Vine offer you the 2024 edition of their top 20 wine list: the twenty personalities who marked the news of the past year and will continue to participate in the construction of our sector. Dear readers, you have until Wednesday January 15 to give your thumbs up on the site dedicated to the crush who will become your most influential and inspiring personality in the wine industry.
Here are the 20 personalities of the top 20 of wine 2024:
– Pierre Bories : the wine merchant from Corbières (Aude) has export ambitions and an analytical method as the new president of the Languedoc Interprofessional Wine Council (CIVL).
– David Berard : the radio journalist from Côtes-du-Rhône (Ici Vaucluse, formerly France Bleu Vaucluse) chairs the new Société des Vignobles Urbains de France (23 cities to date).
– Hortense and Stéphane Brière : dealcoholization experts from B&S Tech Expert and members of the No/low collective advocate the development of dealcoholized wines from winegrowers and terroirs.
– Baptiste Caffaril : the Montpellier student is fighting to demand from FranceAgriMer the payment of €18,200 in aid for the distillation of the Saint-Gély cellar (Gard).
– Guillaume Delaunay : the research & development coordinator of Atelier Paysan participates in the rise of self-construction in the vineyard through training and sharing of experiences.
-Marine Descombe : the winemaker from Beaujolais and Chablis embodies the agroecological aspirations of new generations rediscovering a form of peasant common sense.
-Marie Dubillot : the winegrower and anesthetist from Anjou adapts her plots to climatic hazards, such as by raising the vines of a frost-prone vine in order to keep the buds away from the cold of the ground.
– Bruno Farthouat and Angélique Pierre : the two prevention advisors from the MSA des Charentes warn of the risks of mixing cleaning products in the cellars (in particular mixing soda and hydrogen peroxide).
– Nicolas Fournié : the Lot wine grower is mobilizing to help operators face the crisis, the president of the AOC Cahors defending grubbing up to clean up the sector and faces the future.
– Catherine Héraud : the Médoc winemaker gained notoriety with her participation in season 15 of Love is in the Meadow, which she uses to warn of the risks of suicide in a vineyard experiencing human and economic difficulties.
– Adrien Le Goas : part winegrower in Jurançon, the young machinery enthusiast also designed the plans and built his own electric tractor with sprayer and dust remover.
– Lyndsay Lemarchand, Flora Pulido and Laura Bouquet : attention, trio of machinery enthusiasts with the head of culture and these two tractor drivers from Château Clarke (Listrac-Médoc).
– Alyzée Marchal : the best student sommelier in France cuvée 2024 is not her first title, we bet it will not be the last…
– German Mulet and Valentin Ramel : the co-managers of the Paon Perché estate are developing an inspiring professional reintegration vineyard in Vienne.
-Marie-Laure Panon : looking for levers for optimizing copper treatments against mildew, the head of the Ecosystem and Production department of the Interprofessional Champagne Wine Committee (CIVC) found interesting answers.
-Marie-Laurence Porte : the consulting oenologist crisscrosses Bordeaux by succeeding in advancing oenological research thanks to feedback from the field.
– Thomas Puig : the upstream manager of the Saint-Pargoire cooperative cellar (Hérault) represents employees of the wine industry on the FranceAgriMer specialized wine council and carries their voices during this period of wine crisis.
– Marc Robert : going against the grain, the president of the Alma Cersius cooperative (Hérault) has just completed an investment plan of 15 million euros to equip itself with a bottling center and a sales cellar.
– Frédéric Volle : co-founder of Wine Pilot, the emerging platform to measure the evolution of the carbon footprint of the wine industry, at the scale of wine-growing areas and companies.
– Olivier Zekri : a figure in wine R&D, the deputy director and R&D manager of Mercier nurseries (Vendée) is on all R&D fronts so that the vineyard adapts to possible and imaginable futures.
