A mini-crisis has arrived that people don’t want to face. Submit to the 500 winemakers of Var who produce rosé wine every year. But the professional syndicate of the Provence coasts has to make a rare decision: the authoritative explanations of the twenty previous nectars are presented in an easy-to-follow form.
“After several years of stagnation, exports to Canada declined and rose to États-Unis, our Marché phare,” laments Alexandre Le Corguil, director of operations at Château les Mesclances à La Crau, near Toulon (Var). Nationally, rosé wine requires 15% recovery over six decades over large areas. “It is necessary to adjust production to consumption,” explains Jean-Pierre Dasiano, winemaker and member of the syndicate’s administrative council. “And seul outil does not have a syndicate of titles, here you need to set up a translation à la hausse or à la baisse. »
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In addition, the syndicate is valid for a fixed yield of 50 hectoliters per hectare of vineyards (instead of 55 hectoliters per hectare) in the terroirs also known as Sainte-Victoire, La Londe-les-Maurs or Fréjus. The coup imposed on the rosé wines of the 2023 vintage does not please pas les petits producers, quiennent de terminar leurs vindanges. “This is equivalent to sacrificing 30,000 bottles this year,” the grimacing Marine Chauvier and Philippe Morin du Domaine Marchandise qui onté submitted a petition entitled “Fédérer les vignerons de Provence mécontents” to the fronde au travers d’une.
254 d’entre eux ont déjà Signé pour s’élever contre “une flagrante injustice. All work carried out in the vineyards will be reduced by 10% of the harvest. Tout ça pour l’équilibre des Marchs… » Pour l’appellation Côtes de Provence, which consecrated 90% of the products in pink, the decision is not without consequences. “There is definitely a lack of gagner on the bottom of the bras,” admits Alexandre Le Corguil of Les Mesclans, who came here to sign the petition. “This year there are 100 hectoliters that we pour out to the exploiter, so that is 13,000 bottles. There is also a question, a solution to this crisis evening, to balance our colors in Provence: we diversify in front of red and white more than we advertise misère-sur-le-rosé. »
East You will see that the prices of Midi rosé wines ont atteint de tels niveaux par endroits que le public s’est un peu détourné de ce vin roi pour préférer des blancs not les ventes s’envolent. There is also the “folk effect”, when American stars such as Brad Pitt or George Lucas take up residence in the Provençal wine hills with their respectable chateaux. “The wines are becoming increasingly high quality. And, nous derrière, on ne peut pas s’aligner: neither in terms of volumes, nor in terms of publicity,” scolds an independent winemaker who does not make small holdings the object of convoys from large industrial groups. Rose is still a real treasure in Provence. More fragile qu’avant.