wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
critic, and for
twenty years, a writer for the French consumer wine publication '' La Revue du vin de France''. He left ''La Revue'' in 2004 to work for the rivaling wine publication ''Le Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France''. He now runs his own website.
Following the acquisition of ''La Revue du vin de France'' by ''
Marie-Claire Marie-Claire is a given name. It is a combination of the names Marie and Claire, which are both of French origin. It may refer to:
*Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013), organist and organ teacher
* Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), contemporary art ...
'' and media group
Lagardère Lagardère may refer to:
* Lagardère Group, a French media group
* Jean-Luc Lagardère (1928–2003), French engineer and businessman and CEO of the Lagardère Group
* Arnaud Lagardère
Arnaud Lagardère (; born 18 March 1961) is a French busine ...
, Bettane and his colleague Thierry Desseauve left the publication on grounds of editorial differences, and the two launched their own series of wine guides, ''Le Classement des Meilleurs Vins de France''. Bettane also appears in publications such as ''
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'', ''
Decanter
A decanter is a vessel that is used to hold the decantation of a liquid (such as wine) which may contain sediment. Decanters, which have a varied shape and design, have been traditionally made from glass or crystal. Their volume is usually equ ...
'' and ''
The World of Fine Wine
''The World of Fine Wine'', abbreviated ''WFW'', is a British quarterly publication for a wealthy audience of wine enthusiasts and collectors. Originally published by Quarto Magazines Ltd, and now published by Progressive Media International, the ...
''.
Bettane is credited with coining the term ''"vin de garage"'' and its winemakers ''" garagistes"''.Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog November 26, 2007
In an interview with Swiss newspaper ''
Le Temps
''Le Temps'' ( literally "The Time") is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. It is the sole nationwide French-language non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland. Since 2021, it has ...
'' Bettane stated that wine critics are "not gurus", and stated that criticisms by
Jonathan Nossiter
Jonathan Nossiter (born 1961) is an American filmmaker.
Early life and education
Nossiter was born to a Jewish family
See also
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French wine
French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of the largest wine producers in the world, along with Italian, Spanish, and Amer ...
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List of wine personalities
Instead of common selection criteria for the entire list, notability of people involved should be checked against the description of each sector.
Sectors are arranged from cultivation through processing, starting from vineyards to consumption ad ...