Thursday, my vines have been controlled by the CIBAS. The CIBAS is an independent, accredited by INAO and mandated by the ODG Beaujolais to monitor the adequacy of the practices of wine production rules for AOC.
The ODG is the O ody of efence D and G ement of the AOC. Composed of industry professionals, they were created after the reform INAO in 2007. INAO wanted through the creation of these structures back to the growers themselves the responsibility of monitoring compliance with the rules of the designation. A review by his peers, a "self-control of the profession" so to speak. If this is ODG that our region, in consultation with the INAO have finally decided to transfer the mission control CIBAS, an organization that existed prior to the reform and which was already relying INAO to perform these checks ...
In Beaujolais, two ODG were created. For wines claiming designations Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Village, a second grouping the ten Crus. Each ODG has established an inspection plan based on which the CIBAS to perform these checks. The inspection of the vines shall include compliance with the rules on the size of the appellation, respect Authorized returns per hectare, planting density and last but not least, floor care ...
I had not been informed of the visit of CIBAS. "Unannounced visit", the "law" authorizes. The principle is on the bottom pretty good. It lays down rules that define the scope of the designation. We must ensure that these rules are respected by those who claim it.
I was moving the trimmer in the parcel in front of the property when I saw someone in my camera. Sometimes I see people walking in my vines but in the closed I still found it strange. I am therefore inclined to meet this "walker". He told me he was working on CIBAS and was responsible for monitoring the status of my vines. The ending is so far the vineyard where I still have the most work of weeding. That the parcel closest to home, stashed behind these walls. That's why I kept it to the end of my work of weeding, I can easily go there in my spare time.
rotofil After a week, my other plots to date are quite presentable (that's what I think in any case!) and I'll finally be able to take care of the camera. Unfortunately, during the visit, there were still a lot to build the ranks. Nothing to do with the vegetation of spring but still sufficient enough to generate a sense of "outrage" among the most zealous conventional growers ...
The guy was young winemaker in a nearby town. I informed him that I was in bio (he did not know), that without herbicides was sometimes difficult to fight against the grass ... The CIBAS has the power to downgrade your vineyards if the judge does not conform to the specifications of the designation. The wines produced are then be marketed as table wine. I wanted this info of some organic vintners of Beaujolais, the plots were declassified because it was felt that too many weeds grew there. I tried to measure the capacity of tolerance of my controller on the subject. I had a tee-shirt soaked with sweat by rotofil few hours under a blazing sun. I hope he sympathizes ....
He told me that the grass, he looked, but no more than that, what interested him was to check the disease, yield, size. That slogan was CIBAS to be more "tolerant" compared to grass. Half reassured by the good news, however, I invited him to come take a walk in the other vines adjacent to the property so he can judge the effectiveness of my work as "Junk". He replied that he had just two control plots in the area. I closed and a small plot at the end of the street. It turns out that this parcel is also my ...
I asked a colleague how the bio CIBAS proceeded monitoring of vines. This organization is not of course the ability to control all from Beaujolais. So on what basis objective was based there to choose the vines to control? "On Recommendation" he replied laconically ... Unless the story of my adventures in the vineyards néovigneron on this blog is concerned at this point the people of CIBAS they decide to come take a look closer!
The same evening I found myself with a few bios of Beaujolais. One of them told us he had received following an unannounced inspection of a notification CIBAS decommissioning of one of these parcels for poor maintenance of the ground! "Tolerance" of the subject had CIBAS are limits ... Admittedly, this notification decommissioning was not final. The winemaker may perform the maintenance of soil and expected to seek re CIBAS control before harvest in order to find and the right to be called if the judge CIBAS the parcel again meets its criteria for eligibility. But the fees generated by this second inspection are the responsibility of the grower and the member refuses to have to bear any cost whatsoever to the extent that it finds the status of its vines is not in breach of designation.
Anyway, I do not understand, that in 2010 we are still denied the right to to a wine appellation on the grounds that there is grass in these vineyards. That today most respects its soil? Who really the "Services"? Whoever rejects the use of herbicides and let life resume movement in these soils, with the risk of being overwhelmed by lush vegetation, or one who created the desert around these vines using products that are now know they are polluting our most precious resource, water aquifers? If things change, that many conventional growers are aware of the dangers of herbicides and "reason" the use or recover the land to work, it among them is unconditional chemicals, the soil of vineyards at the old Harvest have a lunar landscape. It is those where the CIBAS should sanction. Those soils and bloodless when I wonder, whenever I see them, how vines can still grow, not those whose land "mess" does not reflect anything other than the return of life in soils. And I would add, not by provocation but to be exhaustive, it is the same in wine-making practices. Who can best take advantage of this concept of terroir, this base on which are based AOC? Those who practice sustainable viticulture development-friendly indigenous yeasts from grapes needed for the processing of wine, which he who uses pesticides that we know now the limiting effect on the yeast populations, requiring the use of exogenous yeast market standardizing the taste of wine?
INAO knows that. But rather than go back to basics, she chose to get rid of hot potato with the professionals of the wine industry by requiring the establishment of ODG. And with less than 4% surface organic or in conversion at the national level, we'll have more time for the profession has changed its criteria for compliance with rules designations. Rules whose guidelines had yet been enacted in the 30s at a time when chemistry had not yet appeared in the vineyards and was little used in the winery.
Growers who have dared to think outside the box first have been obliged to produce table wines. These wines will today meet a growing success with fans and it's only fair. So much so that if today you do not produce table wines, you are almost regarded by some as a has-been ... I find this unfortunate. I marvel at the subtle but noticeable differences between my Beaujolais-Village and my Fleurie 2009. Vineyards located within a mile as the crow flies, conducted in the same way, vinified in yeast and the same procedure. But in the end two different wines and especially typed according to their names, that I could judge for tasting wines of the vintage of a lot of bios of Beaujolais. That is the miracle of names defined by the old. That is what the growers and their officials must defend today, so that consumers find in the typical wines of origin in the diversity of our names. I hope
in any case that this control CIBAS is harmless. We shall see ....
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