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Nov 6, 2011 · A winery visit at cigalus in Boutenac Corbieres with winemaker Gerard Bertrand. Gerard Bertrand talks about global climate change and its effect on wine. H...
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Aug 23, 2012 · European Winery of the Year - Gérard Bertrand. Wine Enthusiast Magazine's 2012 Wine Star Awards Ceremony (honoring our 2011 Wine Star Award winners) ...more.
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Gérard Bertrand is the leading premium wines producer of the South of France. Engaged in biodynamics for more than 15 years, We aim to be convert all our vineyards before 2020.
- Gérard Bertrand: Nature Knows Best
- Gérard Bertrand: Languedoc as A Wine Region
- Languedoc Wines: Long Uphill Battle to Eliminating Preconceptions
For Bertrand, nature knows best. Having completed his first vinification at the age of 10, working in the vineyards has always come naturally to him. But he found his true calling through biodynamic viticulture – an approach to sustainable, organic farming that follows holistic principles and ecologically ethical practices – striking the perfect ba...
Bertrand touts the merits of biodynamics as the best way to bring out the typical character of a terroir while respecting the environment and biodiversity. Thus, his wines embody the varied tastes of Languedoc-Roussillon – the world’s largest winemaking region – which stretches from Montpellier to Perpignan and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pyr...
“My father was very wise because he was one of the first to understand the potential of the area and to have the ambition to reveal the region’s terroirs: Fitou, Corbières, Minervois, Saint-Chinian, Tautavel, and so on,” Bertrand divulges. In the 1960s and ’70s, the Languedoc region produced table wine in bulk as demand was so high that winemakers ...
The largest and most influential independent winemaker in the Languedoc-Roussillon, Bertrand has always nailed his colours to the mast of biodynamics – convinced that this approach makes better wine, is better for the soil, the planet, and can help him when times are tough – like the massive heat wave the region experienced this summer.
Jul 19, 2021 · Gérard Bertrand Wines, the group he formed as the umbrella company for his brands, now encompasses 16 estates, including the much-acclaimed Château l’Hospitalet, whose 2017 Grand Vin Rouge...
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With 16 estates located on the most remarkable terroirs of the South of France, Gérard Bertrand is the Ambassador of Great Wines of Occitania all over the world. He practices biodynamics on all his vineyards and pays attention to the thousand and one details to create wines of precision and finesse.
