B o u vet News #2 - Fall 2011
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TAILLE PRINCESSE DE GÉRARD DEPARDIEU by Bouvet-Ladubay A New Rosé Cuvée
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he collaboration between Patrice Monmousseau and Gérard Depardieu, a duet with a unique savoir-faire in “Brut de Loire”, gave birth to a new Rosé Cuvée - Appellation Saumur Brut with a blending of Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc. “Taille Princesse Rosé”de Gérard Depardieu, by Bouvet-Ladubay was launched in December 2010 in Berlin and in France in January 2011. “This wine whose robe floats between the salmon and onion peel colours offers a complex nose of red fruit and stone cherries followed by a fine woody sandalwood-like note. Power and balance, freshness and sheen. This performance was no doubt achieved thanks to an undeniably sound barrel-ageing. I can see no precedent or any equivalent to this Rosé Brut de Loire. It is a unique wine”.
“To blend a Rosé Cuvée is a refined pleasure; to associate it to the Pinot Noir from the Château de Tigné create the Taille Princesse de Gérard Depardieu is a rare greediness.” Patrice Monmousseau “Rosé wine is the subtle pressure on a newly born grape.” Gérard Depardieu
Eight times 20 years for our House! How young we are! One time 20 years for our Contemporary Art Center. Two times 20 years for me as Chairman and CEO and winemaker. How time flies …. And medals pile up: 400 for our wines; I can but be very proud. My family has been overseeing the destiny of this beautiful House for 3 generations. We had to prepare the fourth one. That is done. Juliette, my daughter, has been appointed Deputy managing director by our Board of Directors. This was also the choice of Vijay Mallya, our owner. My great satisfaction is the score we have just obtained for the IFS and BRC European standards after the AFNOR audit: 97.7%. This quality result is a platinum medal for all the members of the Bouvet-Ladubay team. It is also recognition for our new production unit; it demonstrates the quality of the work done there.
2010 has been an exceptional year for our House. It made an old dream come true: to produce more than in 1910, the year Bouvet experienced its greatest fame. At that time 3 million bottles were produced in Saumur to which were added the 2 million produced by the Union Champenoise, its subsidiary in Epernay (today known as Champagne de Castellane). Hundred years later, it is a new achievement for our production which now reaches 5,600,000 bottles. Hundred years may seem a very long time to reach and break the record of Belle Epoque. We must say that the Great War, followed by bankruptcy and a second world war got the better of Bouvet-Ladubay’s success. Fifty years ago when I was hired as a cellar man, the production was 20 times lower than today’s. We fully well know that wine quality is a prerequisite, that nothing is possible without very high quality customers because your demands make our wine a better wine and your choice our success. Patrice Monmousseau CEO & Chief winemaker
Bruno Paumard
Oenologist
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INDIA !NCLUSIVE
CRICKET WORLD CUP
World Economic Forum - Davos-Klosters, Suisse
India wins the Cricket World Cup
Bouvet Trésor is in the hands of the World Champions!
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Sachin Tendulkar, the icon of Cricket in India, in a rain of Trésor
or 28 years, the Indians longed for it. Now it is done! India won the Cricket World Cup, the second team sport most present on TV, after football. They beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets. The team captain, M.S. Dhoni celebrated the victory of his team with the Trésor vintage. All year long, the Bouvet-Ladubay wines will be associated to the Vijay Mallya’s prestigious cricket team “the Royal Challengers of Bangalore”.
Bouvet is proud to be “Indian” for 5 years already !!!
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Indian Concert, closing ceremony
uring the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 130 members of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) met around the topic INDIA INCLUSIVE. The aim was to raise the profile of India “as a rapidly growing living democracy, with a stable economic power and as a place where culture and art meet”.
The UB Group, represented by its President Vijay Mallya and his son Sidharta Mallya, was the main Partner of the INDIA INCLUSIVE Indian delegation. During the closing ceremony, some 3,000 VIP guests appreciated BouvetLadubay wines, Whyte & Mackay spirits and Kingfisher beer of the UB Group.
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Culture 20 YEARS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Paul Jenkins & Gottfried Honegger The book and wine monthly literary meetings Between October 2010 and April 2011, the literary meetings have been a countdown to the “Journées Nationales du Livre et du Vin” (Book and Wine Festival) and organised around the latest book of a writer. Thus, 8 authors, Frédérique et Déborah Noiret, Gonzague Saint-Bris, Bernard Werber, Alain Chamfort et Pierre-Dominique Burgaud, Catherine Fradier and finally Delphine Coulin, came in turn to the Petit théâtre Bouvet-Ladubay, the Documentation Centre of the Cavalry Museum or to the Great Bookstore in Saumur.
Bouvet Ladubay Contemporary Art Center - Saumur - June to October 2011
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o celebrate the 20th birthday of the Contemporary Art Center, Bouvet-Ladubay invited two masters of 20th century Contemporary Art: Paul Jenkins, one of the great masters in abstract painting and Gottfried Honegger, one of the greatest artists in concrete art.
Frédérique and Déborah Noiret, Gonzague Saint-Bris, Bernard Werber, Alain Chamfort and Pierre Dominique Burgaud, Catherine Fradier and finally Delphine Coulin.
1st May 2011 : Journées Nationales du Livre et du Vin 16th edition After “Ivresse amoureuse” in 2010, the 2011 Festival took place on May 1st at Bouvet-Ladubay. More than 6,000 visitors gathered around the theme “Ivresse fantastique”. 126 writers, 14 winegrowers and gold medallists of the Loire Valley Wine Fair for the event. Round tables, discussions, cafés littéraires, piano concerts and a Claude Chabrol exhibition were organised. Seven literary prizes were awarded, among which the “Claude Chabrol” prize awarded to French actor Christophe Lambert. A public success and a media success, this event still ranks first as the festive and literary event in France, among all the authors. Next edition : May 2012. www.livreetvin.fr
Christophe Lambert
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Bernard Werber
Jenkins, Phenomena Fall from Grace, 2007
Honegger, Z1549, 2010
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Benoît Lermercier, curator since its creation, brilliantly managed to have these two artists at the same time as they last met in New York in 1958. That is how he explains its «raison d’être» and the path travelled during the past 20 years: “We have modestly but vigorously grown the regional inhabitants’ and tourists’ awareness to contemporary creation. By offering a wide ranging programme, we allow the visitors to directly confront the works of art, to love or refuse them; in any case to refine their own taste and reflexion”.
Honegger, Z 1531, 2008
Jenkins, Lasting Sound, 2005
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Dance
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Copyright photo Thomas Bartilla.
Television
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Cinema
J. Bourdin, J. Rodriguez, F. Berléand and JM Belayche.
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BOUVET : A PARTNER IN ARTS
Bouvet-Ladubay supports and shines in culture thanks to its precious partners Cinema : For 20 years, Bouvet-Ladubay has shown loyalty in its collaboration with the Angers European First Film Festival, organised by ClaudeEric Poiroux. Television : Bouvet-Ladubay is a partner of the La Rochelle TV Fiction Film Festival, one of the main
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TV Fiction Film events in France. This year, our House had two reasons to be there: defend its film “Grenouille d’Hiver (Winter Frog)” (Nompareille Productions) and celebrate its 6th year of partnership with the Festival. Dance
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Bouvet-Ladubay to celebrate the most famous European and French choreographies in Pantin. Finally. Opera : since 2007, the Bruts de Loire by BouvetLadubay have been served in the most prestigious opera houses in Berlin.
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Focus
Beverly Hills - Los Angeles - USA
BOUVET BRUT
Pékin - Chine
THE BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL Los Angeles - United States
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or years, this 5-star hotel called “the Pink Palace” has been a historic and privileged landmark to see and be seen in Los Angeles. Bouvet-Ladubay created a special labeling for this unique place. Bouvet Brut is enjoyed in all the restaurants and bars of this mythical location since decades. www.beverlyhillshotel.com
LA PLANTATION Beijing – China
A few wise comments... “Pale and clear yellow, fresh citrus fruit notes, a pleasantly balanced wine with a nice acidity at finish. To drink now.” Tasting comments Wine Challenge 2011 International Jury
“The Loire Valley is a good and reasonably priced source of sparkling wines. These are delicate and subtle wines, with a perfumed impression, a flowery nose and a mineral, fresh and spicy final note.”
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he “Plantation”, inaugurated in Beijing in 2009, is a unique 3-level multifunctional and contemporary place. It hosts exhibitions, concerts, fashion shows, private parties and viewings as well as wine tastings. The place itself is a performance. The Franco Chinese team managing the place chose the Bouvet-Ladubay wines for all their openning and cultural events. Art and French “Art de vivre” obviously meet here. www.laplantation.cn/fr
Will Lyons Wall Street Journal
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Bouvet News - #2 Fall 2011 Under the direction of : BOUVET LADUBAY S.A. Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent 49 400 Saumur - France +33 2 41 83 83 83 contact@bouvet-ladubay.fr www. bouvet-ladubay.fr Morgan View creation, design, production, shipping www.morganview.fr
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Season’s Greetings! Will Lyons goes back to his favourites: BouvetLadubay Saumur Brut, Loire, France (...) “subtle and delicate mouth, flowery aromas and a fresh and spicy mineral tone.”
“Produ c e d wi th a tradit io n a l me th o d , these ba la n c e d wines wi th d e li c a te bubbles a re “ wh i s pering wi n e s ” (. . . ) The Tré s o r vi ntage wi th i ts s o ft white pe a c h a n d pear a ro ma s ma ke s those wh o d ri n k it mo re ki n d e r”.
Special edition “the best Bubbles in the world apart from Champagne”: Bouvet-Ladubay mentioned 7 times among the Best Bubbles in the world / Best Bubbles in France. “Zero defects for Bouvet-Ladubay when presenting its faultless collection of bubbles.”
“It is essential to have a good bottle of wine up to the event of the start of the New Year. Here are my choices: the Bouvet-Ladubay Brut of the UB Group, produced in the Loire Valley with Chenin Blanc grapes. It is a less costly alternative (…) to Champagne”.
The 2011 Bettane & Desseauve Grand Guide des Vins de France listed the 2007 Trésor Blanc and the 2006 Taille Princesse de Gérard Depardieu among the best sparkling white wines from the Loire Valley.
ÉCLAT ROSÉ BRUT Saumur AOC Millésimé 2008
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