Following random checks made by the CIBAS recent weeks, the vintners of Beaujolais bios demanded an appointment to CIBAS to express their resentment about these controls. A hearing was granted to us yesterday morning. If some were missing, most of the bios were present. The following topics were discussed:
First topic: the selection criteria of CIBAS plots to control. Dixit the CIBAS, controls are not (most?) Performed "recommendation", as I had suggested and as I have written here. According to the inspection plan, 20% of the vineyard parcels must be checked annually. To reduce transportation costs (not in order to limit their carbon footprint ;-), the CIBAS carved the vineyard geographic areas that will be monitored on a rolling five years. Within a sector, all plots are inspected without "preference treatment" that such plots are carried out in organic or conventional. (Info or intox, unable to speak).
Second
subject mentioned: we asked what the CIBAS warn growers now before the controls of their vineyards, so they can be present on test day and talk with the inspector about their respective cultural practices . Our request was deemed legitimate by Guillaume de Castelnau, the chairman of CIBAS. He has to be echoed by the INAO order to change the inspection plan in this direction.
Third issue: the point F of the inspection plan, on review for proper maintenance of soil and good management of the grass. We have expressed our doubts about the competence of inspectors to assess what a ground "well maintained". We asked the formulation of more specific guidelines in the inspection plan to allow the inspector to make its monitoring more objectively. It was decided that a working group which would be integrated vitis bios would be formed to consider how to change the inspection plan on this delicate issue.
If therefore the outcome of this meeting, we can say it has been quite constructive. The exchanges were alive, but we must recognize, without making me play devil's advocate, we found ourselves in front of people who showed no particular hostility towards bio (no, no, I do not write in the constraint of a revolver pointed at his head by the Director of CIBAS).
The location of our vineyard is difficult is an understatement. More and more abandoned vineyards, more and more winemakers are to make ends meet, working as a landscaper, as a bricklayer during the week and spend their "leisure" to work in the vineyards. So difficult, in these conditions, the CIBAS achieve serenity controls that its function requires it. It does not strike a man down. Yet INAO CIBAS threatened to withdraw its accreditation if controls are not made and it took a while to CIBAS show more "proactive". Hence the wave of controls at the end of summer. Hence the need also for CIBAS find vines not conform to prove the INAO its "effectiveness" in terms of control. And to "make up the numbers," the vineyards of the bios are the ideal targets. They have a less "Polished" the vines weeded and chemically treated and are controllers for a good source of inspiration to write their reports. But then, before the general awareness of the ecological disaster caused by decades of intensive agriculture and the political will to return to a cleaner agriculture, the minority of the bios is now a legitimacy that his wine forums previously refused. This new "status" allows us to request a replay of the call rules, through the prism of the bio. It allows us to affirm that it is best vineyards with grass, even thousands, that the vines at the sight of the moon, where nothing grows except the vines on the eve harvest, as we unfortunately can still see today. The local Beaujolais seem ready to discuss it before making our voices heard to INAO, which is already in itself a small revolution.
Hopefully this will now display lasted beyond the harvest and will result in concrete. The road is straight, but the slope is rough paraphrase another. And the bios does not want it to be paved, which will increase the difficulty:) To be continued.
Regarding my control, I took the opportunity to know what it was. As I still have not received an answer, a priori not worry about my camera.
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