Millésime Bio, the internationally acclaimed organic wine fair for trade professionals took place this year at the Parc des Expositions in Montpelier. A few days before, the Challenge Millésime Bio wine competition winners were announced to reward the world’s best organic wines.
In 2019, Challenge Millésime Bio received more than 1400 wines entered into the competition. It was the presided over by Philippe Faure Brac, the World’s Best Sommelier in 1992 and President of the Union de la Sommellerie Française.
The wine tastings saw 183 wines win a gold medal, among them the 2016 vintage of Santenay Beaurepaire Premier Cru red wine, from our adopt-a-vine partner winery in Burgundy, Domaine Chapelle.
Domaine Chapelle spearheaded the development of organic wine in Santenay, and has been a regular winner at this prestigious wine competition over the years. Congratulations once again to all the team.
2018 Medal winners
2017 Medal winners
Learn more about adopting vines in Burgundy with Gourmet Odyssey Wine Experience
During the
Wine Experience days at our partner wineries, our customers have the chance to see and work their adopted vines. It’s also the opportunity to take a few pictures for our annual “My Vine” photo competition, and at stake is the hope of winning a magnum of wine from
the winery where their adopted vines are located. Once again we have had lots of great moments shared together and many laughs. Thank you for all of the wonderful photos that we received!
We have picked 25 for the competition final, and there will eventually be two winners. One will be chosen by the Gourmet Odyssey team for the most original photo, and the other winner will be the photo that receives the most likes on our Facebook page. So it’s now up to you to vote for your preferred photo!
Take a look at the finalists and vote for your favourite photo on the Gourmet Odyssey Facebook page before 12:00 (French time) on the 10th December. Be careful to like the individual photo and not the whole album!
The two winners will receive a magnum of wine from the winery where they have their Wine Experience.
Come back on the 10th December to see the winning pictures!
The Gourmet Odyssey Wine Experience days are hands-on wine courses at our partner wineries, where you learn all about the hard work that goes into making a bottle of organic wine. Depending on the type of day, you can get involved in working in the vineyard to prune the vines, participate in the harvest, or learn about the work in the cellar to ferment, age, blend and bottle the wines. Follow this link for more information about our wine courses.
Challenge Millésime Bio is an international wine competition that receives over 1500 organic wines each year to judge. The jury is made up of wine professionals, and this year the president was Klaus Hermann, Director of the German wine magazine, WEIN+MARKT.
Of the 1516 wine samples presented for tasting during this year’s competion, the jury awarded medals to 434 wines:
- 136 gold medals
- 201 silver medals
- 97 bronze medals
Among our partner wineries, four of our winemakers had the pleasure of receiving a medal:
- Domaine la Cabotte in the Cotes du Rhone wine-growing region received a gold medal for their 2015 Châteauneuf-Du-Pape Vieilles Vignes
- Château Beau Rivage in Macau-en-Médoc was also awarded a gold medal for their 2015 Clos la Bohème
- Domaine Chapelle, our partner vineyard in Burgundy, won silver for their 2015 Santenay Premier Cru Beaurepaire
- Domaine Allegria was also awarded a silver medal for their 2014 Languedoc Mendel Malbec
Congratulations for these well-deserved awards. We look forward to the tasting them at the Millésime Bio organic wine fair!
We enjoyed another great year in the Gourmet Odyssey
adopted vineyards, as the photos submitted for the “My Vine” photo competition illustrate. Many thanks to all of you who have entered a picture, liked, commented or shared the photos that were taken during the
wine experience days at our partner wineries.
The vote on
Facbeook is now over and it’s time to announce the two winners. Congratulations to Mégane Cadiou, who wins the photo with the most likes on Facebook, and to Jérémie Lebrun who received the Gourmet Odyssey jury vote. It's not exactly the sort of activitiy that normally goes on in the vineyard, but it's the originality that has been rewarded!
Once again this year, it wasn’t easy to select the winners from all of the great photos that made it through to the final!
Each winner will receive a magnum of wine from the winery where their adopted vines are located.
We’ll be back in February 2018 for a new competition which starts with the first Vinification and Discovery Experience Days! In the meantime we hope that you enjoy the end of year festivities!
Once again this year, the adopted vine owners snapped away during the Gourmet Odyssey
Wine Experience days, in the quest to take the most original photo of their vines at our
partner wineries. Many thanks to all for your enthusiasm!
We have selected 25 photos to go through to the final of the 2017 My Vine photo competition, and now it is up to you to vote for the one that you think is the most original! There will be two winners, one for the photo that receives the most “likes” on our Facebook page, and one for the photo chosen by the Gourmet Odyssey team.
View the finalists and vote for your favourite photo on the Gourmet Odyssey Facebook page before 12:00 (French time) on the 11th December! Be careful to “like” the individual photo that you want to vote for and not the whole album!
The two winners will each receive a magnum of wine from their Wine Experience partner winery.
We’ll announce the winning entries on the 11th December!
The Challenge Millésime Bio
organic wine competition took place last week. It is the competition that is run by the Millésime Bio organic wine fair.
More than 1200 samples are entered each year into the Challenge Millésime Bio competition. This year it was presided over by Joris Snelten, the CEO of Delta Wines, one of the most prominent Dutch wine importers.
On the 17th January 2017 the jury tasted 1413 wines, and awarded 413 medals:
- 125 gold medals
- 201 silver medals
- 87 bronze medals
Two of our partner wineries won medals:
- Domaine la Cabotte saw its Garance (Côtes du Rhône Village Massif d’Uchaux) 2015 red wine awarded a silver medal. This is the wine that is selected by Gourmet Odyssey for its Wine Experience!
- Domaine Chapelle in Burgundy won a gold medal for its Chassagne-Montrachet Morgeot Premier Cru 2014 red wine.
Congratulations to all those involved at these two wineries!
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Next week wine professionals from around the world will gather together in Montpellier for the
Millésime Bio 2016 organic wine fair. The
Challenge Millésime Bio wine competition is also run for the event, and this year saw three of our partner winemakers win medals.
This international wine competition receives more than 1200 wine samples from France and from others countries around the world. It is always presided over by a well known personality from the professional wine world, and this year the Jury President was Lars Torstenson, a Swedish oenologist based in Provence for the past 25 years, and who travels the world tasting wines for his job.
The tasting of the 1392 wines presented this year took place on the 12th January, and the jury awarded 419 medals:
- 136 gold medals
- 172 silver medals
- 111 bronze medals
Our partner winemakers once again figured amongst the winners of this prestigious organic wine competition:
- The Clos la Bohème (Haut-Médoc) 2012 from Château Beau Rivage, near Bordeaux, won a gold medal
- Domaine la Cabotte in the Rhone Valley saw their Garance (Côtes du Rhône Village Massif d'Uchaux) 2014 awarded a silver medal. This is also the wine chosen by Gourmet Odyssey for the Wine Experience!
- Domaine Chapelle in Burgundy received a bronze medal for their Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Morgeot 2013 red wine.
Congratulations to all
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Being an organic winemaker
Once again, this year we have spent many great moments at our
partner
wineries with all of the Gourmet Odyssey
Experience Day
participants. We've learnt lots more about wine thanks to our
winemakers, we've had fun working in the vineyards, have loved
tasting the wines from the cellar, and we've received many great
photos throughout the year. Thank you!
We've selected 20 photos for the My Vine 2015 final, and it was a
very difficult job to do! There will be two winners: The Facebook
prize for the one that receives the most likes (get clicking),
and the Gourmet Odyssey Jury prize for the most original photo.
Take a look at our selected finalists and vote for your
favourite photo on Facebook between now and the 7th December at
9:00am! Take care to "like" the individual photo that you prefer
and not the whole album.
The two winners will each receive a magnum of wine from their
Wine Experience partner
winery. We'll announce the winners on our Facebook page and on
our blog on the 7th December!
It's time to place your votes for the 2014 "My Vine" photo
competition. During the year the Gourmet Odyssey
Wine Experience clients have sent in their most
original photos of their vines taken during one of the
Wine Experience days.
The only criterion is for the most original photo, leaving the
adoptive parents of the vines carte blanche for creativity!
Entries are now closed for the 2014 competition, and we have had
the difficult task to select the 15 finalists to go forward for
the chance to win a magnum of wine from the winery where their
adopted vines are located. Visit our Facebook page to see the selected finalists.
Two magnums are up for grabs. The first winner will be selected
by the Gourmet Odyssey jury, and the second by yourselves. To
vote for your favourite photo, visit the album on the Facebook page and like the photo that you
think should win. Please note to like the individual photo and
not the album as a whole if you wish to cast a vote!
Voting is open until midnight French time on
the 7th December.
Once again we're proud to announce the latest in the long list of
prizes that our partner vineyard, Château Beau Rivage, has won
for the exceptional quality of its wines.
During the recent Concours des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants
(Independent Winemakers Competition), a gold medal was awarded for
the Château Beau Rivage 2009 Bordeaux Supérieur, the red wine
chosen for the Gourmet Odyssey Wine Experience, and another gold
for the Clos la Bohème 2009 Haut-Médoc wine that Christine Nadalié
also makes.
These latest accolades follow on from the silver medal that the
Clos la Bohème won at the prestigious Concours Général Agricole de
Paris 2012!
During the Wine Experience Days, one thing you can always be
sure of is that the cameras will come out and start clicking away
as soon as our clients meet their adopted vines!
We are often surprised by the originality of the photos taken, so
we thought it was a good idea to launch the "My Vine"
competition for the most original photo taken of your
adopted vines during one of the Gourmet Odyssey Wine Experience
days.
Let your imagination blossom - arty, comic, or
atmospheric? All photographic styles are welcome!
Criteria n°1: Know how to use a camera
Criteria n°2: Get involved
Criteria n°3 (and the most important):
Originality
The competition is now open and will finish at the end of
October. The winner will receive a magnum of the
wine included for their Gourmet Odyssey Experience!
To enter, you can publish your photo of your adopted vines
directly on our Facebook page or you can send it by
email.
So next time, you come and visit us at one of our partner
vineyards, don't forget to bring your camera!
Millésime Bio is the world's largest organic
wine fair, and is becoming more and more important as the years go
by. Each January, organic winemakers from around the world
gather in Montpellier to showcase their wines and to share best
practices in organic and biodynamic farming techniques.
Each of our five partner vineyards were exhibitors at the wine
fair, and put their wines forward for the Challenge Millésime Bio
best organic wine awards.
We are thrilled to announce that two of our partner winegrowers
had one of their organic wines selected for a silver medal.
Domaine Chapelle won theirs for the Santenay Premier Cru,
Beaurepaire 2009 organic red wine, and Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard
for their Chablis Vielles Vignes 2009 organic white wine.
Congratulations for this well deserved praise, that once again
recognizes the quality and excellence of our partner winemakers!
