OOV on July 7th 2026 at Domaine Liébart Régnier: issues relating to water quality in organic viticulture
🍇 Laurent Liébart welcomed us at the foot of his vineyards for this latest ‘Vigne Bio Ouverte’ event. Having switched to organic farming, he explains that this transition was driven by concerns over water quality 💧, a topical issue for local authorities. Many water catchments in France contain high levels of metabolites from banned herbicides, […]
OOV on May 28th, 2026, at Champagne Fleury : 🌿 Organic winemaking is, above all, about knowing how to listen — to the grapes, the terroir, and time.🌿
During a visit to Champagne Fleury, Jean-Sébastien Fleury welcomed us to his estate, where he works alongside his brother Benoît and his sister Morgane. He shared his vision of biodynamic winemaking: an approach in which patience, intuition and respect for living organisms are tangibly reflected at every stage. It all begins in the vineyard. 🌱 […]
🐑 OOV : ROBOTICS IN ORGANIC VITICULTURE WITH MAXIME GRELLET 🤖🌱
Based at Champagne René Grellet, Maxime Grellet has been running his vineyard organically since 2011 🍇. Always on the lookout for innovative solutions, this year he has introduced a vineyard robot for soil cultivation. Quiet and precise, this robot offers numerous advantages 👍: it enables consistent work, approximately every three weeks ⏱️, with great precision […]
ORGANIC VINEYARD OPEN ON NOVEMBER 18th 2025: 🐑 SHEEP & VINEYARDS IN HARMONY WITH CLÉMENT ROBERT 🌱
Based in Landreville, Clément Robert took over the estate in 2019 and embarked on a major transition towards organic viticulture 🍇: organic certification obtained in 2022, and sheep grazing introduced in the vineyards. Since November, 14 sheep — two castrated males and ewes — have been grazing his plots. They are mainly breeds suited to […]
🌳 VBO ADAPTATION: THE MAZET ESTATE FACES CLIMATE CHANGE 🌿
In Chigny-les-Roses, during the Vigne Bio Ouverte event on 3 November, Olivier Mazet shared his experience and choices for tackling the challenges of climate change. On his Champagne estate, each row of vines becomes a living laboratory where observation, innovation and respect for life come together.🌱 A conscious agroecological transition: Certified organic since 2012, the […]
OPEN ORGANIC VINEYARD ‘VINE WEAVING’ AT JÉRÔME BOURGEOIS
At Jérôme Bourgeois’s estate, the vines grow freely. On his 7 hectares, which have been farmed organically since 2013 and biodynamically since 2014, Jérôme Bourgeois practises vine training, a gentle technique he discovered during a visit to the Ruppert-Leroy estate in Aube. Unlike traditional pruning, trellising allows the vines to complete their growth cycle naturally, […]
OPEN ORGANIC VINEYARD “DISCOVERING PNPP IN ORGANIC VITICULTURE” WITH GUILLAUME MARTEAUX, ON APRIL 3td 2025
OPEN ORGANIC VINEYARD “BIODIVERSITY” AT LES RICEYS, WITH OLIVIER HORIOT, ORGANIC WINEGROWER AND JOHANN BROUILLARD, CONSERVATOR OF NATURAL AREAS IN CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE, ON 19th NOVEMBER 2024
OPEN ORGANIC VINEYARD “DISCOVERY OF AN ORGANIC CHAMPAGNE HOUSE” WITH CHAMPAGNE HOUSE MEDOT, IN ÉPERNAY, ON NOVEMBER 14TH, 2024
OPEN ORGANIC VINEYARD ‘BRAIDING, AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRIMMING’, AT THE DOMAIN THIBAULT LEGRAND IN ŒUILLY
