The famous circular cellar at Louis Jadot in Beaune, Burgundy

The winery with wooden and stainless steel fermentation vats. It is built in a circular design and made from chestnut wood to fight insects, Maison Louis Jadot, Beaune Côte Cote d Or Bourgogne Burgundy Burgundian France French Europe European

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Louis Jadot is a big négociant of Burgundy wine. The offices are in the heart of Beaune (Bourgogne) and the main winemaking facility is on the outskirts of town. Being a négociant they make wine from grapes (or possibly wine) bought in from other wine producers, but more importantly they also own, or run, several wine estates directly.

The Maison Louis Jadot (with the Domaines Louis Jadot) makes wine from a large number of appellations along the Burgundy slopes. They make plain Burgundy, Beaujolais, commune wines in the Cote d'Or up to several different grand cru wines. In addition they own a cooper (wine barrel maker) called Cadus.

The Louis Jadot winery is on the edge of Beaune and was built only a few years back. It is equipped with the latest vinification equipment but retains many of the traditional techniques too. On ground level in the winery there is the famous circular cellar with a range of fermentation and storage vats, but in wood and in stainless steel. Underground is a vast cellar with many hundreds of oak barrels for aging the wine in wood.

The vineyards are spread out over the whole of Burgundy. They are mainly managed in culture raisonnée. Some experiments with biodynamics are ongoing. The grapes are the classic Burgundy grapes: chardonnay, pinot noir, gamay (in Beaujolais).

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Lots of oak, but not new (Domaine Vissoux, Beaujolais)

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Domaine du Vissoux is the winery of Martine and Pierre-Marie Chermette. It has long been one of the most well-known and quality conscious producers of Beaujolais. The name comes from the little hamlet, near the village Saint Vérand, where the winery is located in the southern part of Beaujolais in Burgundy (Bourgogne).

The winery has 25 hectares of vines. Almost all is planted with the traditional Beaujolais grape variety gamay (gamay noir à jus blanc). There are also two small plots of chardonnay for the (unusual) white Beaujolais wines.

The Chermettes couple also own vineyards in other parts of Beaujolais and makes a range of wines: apart from "normal" Beaujolais they also make Brouilly, Fleurie, Moulin à Vent, Crémant de Bourgogne (since 2009) and crème de cassis from blackcurrants.

The vineyards are farmed with an "eco-friendly" approach: The use a minimum of chemicals in the vineyards and do much of the crop control and soil management mechanically or by hand. Harvest is manual. In the wine cellar they use natural rather than cultured yeasts, try to keep chaptalisation to a minimum (sometimes not at all, they have a cuvée that is specifically not chaptalised) and use very little sulphur both in the vinification phase and at bottling. For the vinification they use "semi-carbonic" vinification with a shorter period under CO2 than in full carbonic maceration.

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There's a tree on top of the hill (Beaune vineyard, Burgundy)

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The small town of Beaune is the undisputed capital of the Côte d'Or, the heart of Burgundy's vineyards. The centre is full of restaurants and quite a few cafés. There are busy shopping streets and quite a few wine shops (but be careful - there are some tourist traps of course).

There are also plenty of historical monuments, the one standing head and shoulder above all others is the Hospices de Beaune, also called Hôtel Dieu - the medieval hospital founded in 1443. It is also the prime example of the typical colourful Burgundian roof tiles.

Beaune has a population of 22,000 and is part of the departement Côte d'Or in the Bourgogne region. It is a good place to stay if one wants to explore the wines and vineyards of Burgundy.

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What to do when your photos are stolen

It happens to everyone. Perhaps it happens more and more often these days. Either because people think that images that they find online are free to use (totally wrong) or because they think that the chances of being caught are very small (only too right).

So, you have found that someone has used your image, on-line, in print or in some other way.

Your photos have been "stolen", you have been subject to copyright theft, someone is infringing on your intellectual property - it has many names.

What should you do?

What you can do and how is slightly different depending on in which jurisdiction or which country you are.

The EPUK (Editorial Photographers United Kingdom & Ireland) recently published a very good article about it. It is of course focused on what you can (and should) do in the UK, but the advice is quite applicable in most places.

In short

• Find the infringement (breach of copyright, unautorised use) of your photograph, AND DOCUMENT IT CAREFULLY AND IN DETAIL
• Estimate how much you think you should be compensated for the unauthorised use, including at least: 1) license fee, plus 2) fee for unauthorised use
• Contact the infringer with an initial letter
• Claim money
• Get paid

Not as easy as that, but the article contains much good advice!

The article also contains sample letters to send to the infringer - very useful!

Read the full article here: Stolen photographs: what to do? on the EPUK site, written by Simon Crofts, photographer and lawyer.

There's even a pdf version of the article that you can download and file for when you need it...

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Gamay at its finest (Beaujolais, Burgundy)

Bunches of ripe grapes. Gamay. Domaine Tracot & Dubost, Beaujolais, France

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Domaine du Tracot and Domaine Dubost are the property of the Dubost family in the Beaujolais. It is managed by Jean-Paul Dubost, winemaker.

It is a fairly substantial property with vineyards in several of the crus in Beaujolais: Moulin à Vent, Brouilly, Morgon, Regnié, Fleurie. The vineyards are planted with Beaujolais, the red grape variety of the Beaujolais. They also have small plots of vineyards planted with white chardonnay and viognier grapes.

The winemaking and the winery is a mix of modern and traditional. They harvest the grapes by hand, as is the rule in Beaujolais. The grapes arrive at the winery and are sorted on a sorting table to eliminate bad fruit. The winery has on one side shining stainless steel fermentation tanks, and on the other traditional concrete vats.

Being a relatively large producer in Beaujolais they export their wines to several different countries and have received positive mentions from several international wine critics.

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Morgon village in Beaujolais

Vineyards. The village with church. Morgon, Beaujolais, France

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As seen from Domaine Lathuiliere-Gravallon.

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Domaine Lathuilière-Gravallon is a 17 hectares wine estate in the Beaujolais region in southern Burgundy. The winery belongs to the Lathuiliere Gravallon family. Today it is Cathy Lathuilière who is the winemaker.

The vineyards are in the Beaujolais region so the grape variety used is gamay, making fresh, aromatic red wines. They make several different cuvees from the different communes, "crus", in Beaujolais: Morgon, Fleurie, Chirobles. They even make a Beaujolais rosé.

Harvesting the grapes is done by hand with a team of grape pickers. the gamay vines in Beaujolais are traditionally trained in gobelet style, bush vines, making hand picking essential.

The winemaking is very traditional. The wine is aged in oak vats of large size. Some are aged in smaller barrels.

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The Moulin a Vent windmill as seen from Chenas, Beaujolais

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As seen from the Domaine Hubert Lapierre

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The Domaine Hubert Lapierre is a family owned winery in Beaujolais in the appellations Chénas and Moulin à Vent in Beaujolais in southern Burgundy (Bourgogne). All wines are made from the exclusive Beaujolais red grape variety gamay (or to give it its full name: gamay noir à jus blanc).

The vines are trained and pruned in gobelet style (bush vine) and grow on sandy and granitic soil. The grapes are harvested manually. There are some 10 hectares of vines with an average age of the vines of 45 to 80 years.

The Domaine Hubert Lapierre makes several different cuvees in the two cru appellations Moulin à Vent and Chénas, including a Vieilles vignes selection.

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Harvest in Morgon, Beaujolais

Harvest workers picking grapes. Morgon. Beaujolais, Burgundy, France

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Beaujolais is the southern-most wine region in Burgundy in France. It is mainly producing red wines from the gamay grape, but it also makes some white wine using the chardonnay vine variety. The wines are generally fruity and aromatic. Most of it is drunk young, but the better qualities can be aged and then develop quite different taste and aroma profiles. Beaujolais is the largest sub-region in the Bourgogne wine country, covering some 20,000 hectares planted with vines.

The vines mostly grow on sandy or granitic soils. Traditionally vines have to be trained in the gobelet style (bush vines) and grapes must be harvested manually, quite different from what is practiced in other parts of Bourgogne. In recent years experimental plantings with vines trained on wire (cordon, guyot) have been allowed in Beaujolais to make it possible to harvest with machine. (However, there are vineyards that have been trained in cordon since long time back.)

The Beaujolais appellation is structured in the following levels: Beaujolais, Beaujolais Villages (better quality but without mention of the village, coming from 39 communes), and Beaujolais Cru. The top level is the "crus" (NB it is not called "grand cru") which always mention name of the village (cru) on the label. The cru wines come from ten villages considered to be the best areas for wine growing in Beaujolais: Brouilly, Côte de Brouilly, Morgon, Moulin à Vent, Juliénas, Chénas, Saint Amour, Régnié, Chiroubles, Fleurie.

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Toasted (making a wine barrel)

Burning, toasting the barrel with fire. Cooperage, barrel manufacturing, Cadus, Louis Jadot, Ladoix, Beaune, Burgundy, France

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Tonnellerie Cadus is a cooperage (barrel maker) in the heart of Bourgogne in Ladoix-Serrigny just north of Beaune. It belongs to the Louis Jadot négociant (wine merchant and wine producer) but also sells its barrels to other wineries.

They make barrels of all sizes, including the Burgundian pièce of 228 litres and the Bordelais barrique of 225 litres. Making a barrel is still very much a hand craft. It starts with selecting the wood from oak grown in France or, increasingly, other countries. The wood is cut in rough planks that are let to dry in the wood yard for several years. The planks are then cut into precision shaped staves and then the assembly starts: The staves are put together in a cylinder held tight with the iron hoops.

The cooper then heats the barrel over open fire, both to make it easier to bend the staves to the rounded shape and also to give the barrel it's toasting. The firing, or toasting ("chauffe"), can be soft, medium or strong and is one of the key parameters in the characteristics of a barrel. Other key elements are the provenance of the wood, albeit many argue that the tannin contents is more important than what forest the trees come from, the grain of the wood, and the craftsman's skills of the cooper.

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A broad perspective on Corton Grand Cru in Aloxe

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The Aloxe Corton village in Burgundy has three "grand crus": Le Corton, Corton-Charlemagne, and Charlemagne. By far the largest is Corton that can be used both for red wines and for white wines. The other two are used for white wines only. The Aloxe Corton commune is located in the northern part of Côte de Beaune in central Burgundy, neighbouring Ladoix-Serrigny and Pernand-Vergelesses.

The red wines are exclusively made from the pinot noir grape variety and the white wines from chardonnay. The total vineyard area is around 100 hectares. 95% of production is red. It is the largest for the grands crus in Bourgogne.

There are several vineyard names ("climat") that are sometimes used on the labels on the wines. For example: Les Pougets, Les Chaumes, Les Fiètres, Les Bressandes, Clos des Meix, Les Renardes, Les Grèves, Clos du Roi. Les Hospices de Beaune has a number of parcels in this area.

Corton is the only grand cru for red wines in the Côte de Beaune.

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Rain may be bad for the harvest but it certainly is pretty (Corton Grand Cru, Aloxe)

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The Aloxe Corton village in Burgundy has three "grand crus": Le Corton, Corton-Charlemagne, and Charlemagne. By far the largest is Corton that can be used both for red wines and for white wines. The other two are used for white wines only. The Aloxe Corton commune is located in the northern part of Côte de Beaune in central Burgundy, neighbouring Ladoix-Serrigny and Pernand-Vergelesses.

The red wines are exclusively made from the pinot noir grape variety and the white wines from chardonnay. The total vineyard area is around 100 hectares. 95% of production is red. It is the largest for the grands crus in Bourgogne.

There are several vineyard names ("climat") that are sometimes used on the labels on the wines. For example: Les Pougets, Les Chaumes, Les Fiètres, Les Bressandes, Clos des Meix, Les Renardes, Les Grèves, Clos du Roi. Les Hospices de Beaune has a number of parcels in this area.

Corton is the only grand cru for red wines in the Côte de Beaune.

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Halloween wine? (Domaine Comte Senard, Bourgogne)

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Domaine Comte Senard is a family owned wine estate in the commune of Aloxe-Corton in Côte de Beaune in Burgundy (Bourgogne). It is in the village of Aloxe, just below the Corton hill and the Corton grand cru vineyards.

The winery now has 9 hectares of vineyards in a number of different Burgundy appellations, including Bourgogne grand crus, premier crus and village appellations, e.g. Clos de Meix, Corton Clos du Roi, Corton Bressandes, and Corton Charlemagne. The Clos des Meix is adjoining the buildings in the village. Around 20 different wines are made.

The wines used to be made and aged in the ancient vaulted cellars, dating from the 13th century, under the house in the village but modern requirements have led to production being moved to newer winery facilities in Beaune. The old cellar is now used for some bottle aging and to display old barrels. The white wines are exclusively made from chardonnay, of course, and the red wines from pinot noir. Winemaking is today under the responsibility of count Philippe Senard and his daughter Lorraine.

They also have a small table d'hote restaurant in the village where one can eat traditional Burgundian food matched with a wide range of excellent Burgundy wines served by the glass.

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