2009/01/01 by Geneviève Teil, Teil, Geneviève, Sandrine Barrey +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Organic Food and Agriculture #Wine Industry and Tourism #French Urban and Social Studies
paper · doi:10.17180/5gns-0s50
Organic farming certification has certainly contributed to unifying organic production, particularly byreducing the number of private charters. However, this reduction should not be misleading. Organicagriculture cannot be reduced to just a label and includes other requirements related to ethics,agronomy and economic policy whose implementation contributes to the diversification of marketingorganisations that selectively ensure the marketing of organic products. Furthermore, in the case ofviticulture, organic producers have recently placed more emphasis on the taste quality of their winesthat they have linked in various ways to the quality of the environment. This new link between taste andenvironment has added a new complexity to marketing organisations and has given impetus to the useof environmentally-friendly vine-growing practices that have become a resource for the development ofwines that are strongly identified with a terroir. Therefore, an increasing number of quality wines makeuse of organic or biodynamic practices to make better wines that are more representative of the qualityof their terroir, but that do not emphasize the corresponding certification in order to keep their qualitymessage clear.