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PRESS RELEASE
March 2010, the first edition of l'Essence des Sens welcomed 35 domains, more than 300 professional visitors on just one day and convinced me to make it a regular event.
The second edition will take place on 17 and 18 March 2012 in the prestigious market hall of the Halles de Beaune, in the heart of the capital of the Wines of Burgundy.
This wine salon, organized in the build-up to the Grands Jours de Bourgogne, will welcome some fifty exhibitors.
It will be open to the public on Saturday17 March 2012 from 17.30 to 21.30.
Sunday 18 March from 09.00 to19.00 will be the day for professionals.
Inscriptions will be possible from 5 February 2012 on my internet site
www.lessence-des-sens.com.
My e-newsletter will inform you regularly about the salon and exhibitors, with the possibility of consulting my facebook page updated regularly.
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Exhibitors
L'Essence des Sens contributes to the promotion of wines from winemakers involved in ecological development.
They are winemakers from Burgundy and other French wine regions who are also certified in organic agriculture or in their second year of conversion :
• Burgundy Chablisien, Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise, Mâconnais, Beaujolais.
• Other regions Jura, Savoie, Côtes du Rhône, Vallée de la Loire, Languedoc, Champagne, Alsace, Bordeaux and South-West.
• Invitee : the Domaine WEINGUT TRAUTWEIN from the region of Keiserstuhl in Germany.
L'Essence des Sens 2012 will welcome :
• Some fifty wine domains presenting the red and white wines most representative of their appellation
• Some stands for organic and gastronomic products allowing on-the-spot food availabily.
The exhaustive list of exhibitors will be available on www.lessence-des-sens.com from 5 February 2012.
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Visitors
Saturday 17 March 2012 from 17.30 to 21.30 : tasting salon /sale of wines open to the public.
Sunday 18 March 2012 from 09.00 to 19.00 : tasting salon open to professionals.
All Wine and Media professionals :
• agents, importers and wine merchants/shippers
• wine shops, sommeliers and œnologists
• restaurant owners, specialized websites and blogs
• journalists (press, radio, TV, internet)
will be received by invitation and can sign up via the site www.lessence-des-sens.com.
Professionals will be offered :
• 1 tasting glass
• 1 tasting note carnet
• 1 plan of the Halles indicating the location of each exhibitor
They will have the possibility of eating on the spot (20€), providing this is specified at inscription.
Organisation
L'Essence des Sens 2012 will be held in the Halles de Beaune, wine capital of Burgundy :
Saturday 17 March 2012 from 17.00 to 21.30 :
open to the public, paid entrance including tasting glass
Sunday 18 March 2012 from 09.00 to 19.00 :
open to professionals by invitation. |
On Thursday 25th March 2010, the first day of wine-tasting dedicated exclusively to Burgundy and Jura wines from organic and bio-dynamic agriculture took place in Santenay.
It was at the Domaine Chapelle (held by the Chapelle family since 1893) that this first edition of L'Essence des Sens took place, a professional tasting exclusively dedicated to wines from organic and bio-dynamic agriculture.
Organized by Muriel Deléger, daughter of a winemaker and involved in the defence of the environment and the promotion of natural growing methods, the event assembled together 35 exhibitors representing the Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits, Val de Saône, Mâconnais, Beaujolais, Chablis-Auxerrois and Jura appelations. Throughout the day, the new vat-house of the Domaine Chapelle spacious, light and perfectly functional - witnessed a procession of 300 visitors (importers, merchants, agents, wine shops, professional tasters and sommeliers, restaurants owners and journalists) from the whole world - and notably from Japan - come to discover this fine flowering of organic wines from Burguny and Jura.
Besides its commercial aspect, L'Essence des Sens sees itself as an educational tool and Muriel Deléger had foreseen a lecture space at the Château de la Crée (taken over in 2004 by Béatrice and Nicolas Ryhiner) and only a few meters distant. Contributors spoke one after another to explain to listeners the implications of organic and bio-dynamic agriculture, the stages of conversion and the future of wines from natural methods. These contributors were, notably, Bernard Hudelot (President of Vitagora Vigne et Vin, Univesity of Bourgogne - and winegrower-oenologist at Villars-Fontaine), who explained at length the recent scientific advances in terms of wine and health; Philippe Guigue (controller-auditor of ECOCERT), who detailed the workings of certificating bodies and the new European cahier des charges and Pierre Fenals (wine merchant and bio-dynamic grower in St Aubin), who shared his field experience.
Exhibitors and visitors alike were delighted with their day. The next edition is already programmed : it will take place on 17th - 18th March 2012, right in the heart of Beaune.
Muriel Deléger :
From a family of winemarkers, Muriel Deléger worked in vineyards for more than 20 years before reconverting to consultancy and training of winemakers sensitive to natural methods.
www.lessence-des-sens.com/muriel-deleger
Château de La Crée :
Acquired in 2004 by Béatrice and Nicolas Ryhiner, the domaine of the Château de la Crée today amounts to 7.5 hectares of vines in 7 communes of the Côte de Beaune and produces 16 different wines.
www.la-cree.ch
Domaine Chapelle :
Installed in the upper part of the village of Santenay (in the south of the Côte de Beaune), the Domaine Chapelle belongs to the family since 1893. It is run since 1991 by Yvette and Jean-François Chapelle.
www.domainechapelle.com
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