After a presentation of the OIV and its activities given by the various unit heads, this year’s MSc students were welcomed by the Director General, Pau Roca, who explained the future strategic plan of the Organisation and spoke about the main issues for the vitivinicultural sector of today.
The specific nature of the course is designed to be mono-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, itinerant, international and experiential all at the same time; it also now has one of the most developed networks in the world of wine. Since 1988, almost 500 players and policy makers in the wine world have taken this training programme.
The international dimension to this programme is expressed through a curriculum that every year leads students to discover over 20 key countries on the wine planet, spread over the 5 continents.
This was an opportunity for the students on the 32nd year of the OIV MSc in Wine Management to explore the new premises of the OIV, which now resides at 35 Rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris.
The repurposing of the building in rue d’Aguesseau prompted the OIV to move its Secretariat, although it will still be located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, near Parc Monceau.
Home to the management and services functions of the OIV since mid-September, the functional and contemporary space has been renovated using cork, thanks to the support of Amorim.
Just a stone’s throw from the Place de Rio de Janeiro, dear to the President of the OIV, the new OIV premises at 35 rue de Monceau will host experts attending autumn meetings to take place in the conference centre located opposite on 14 and 15 October, and then in Val de Loire for the adoption of the 2020-2024 Strategic Plan.
Hosted by H.E. Mr Juan Salazar Sparks, the 2019 OIV Awards ceremony was held in the suites of the Embassy of Chile in Paris. The event was attended by numerous representatives of the Diplomatic Corps, together with OIV President Ms Regina Vanderlinde, OIV Director General Mr Pau Roca, Award Jury President Ms Azélina Jaboulet-Vercherre, and Award Jury Scientific Secretary Mr Jean-Luc Berger.
The renown and prestie of this mark of international recognition were confirmed once again this year by the high quality level demonstrated by the 2019 Award winners in each of the fields represented: scientific and technical, literary, historical, and artistic.
A total of 11 Awards and 9 Special Mentions were given out by the international OIV Jury.
After praising the work of Jean-Luc Berger, who carried out this role with the greatest of skill in recent years, the CST was unanimous about a career path that meets the requirements of an essential position for the review of scientific and technical works submitted to the OIV Awards.
An engineer in oenology and viticulture (Changins School of Viticulture and Oenology in Switzerland), Richard Pfister was awarded the Swiss Union of Oenologists’ prize for his thesis on sensory analysis entitled ‘La méthodologie de l’olfaction en parfumerie : Possibilités d’application à l’analyse sensorielle des vins’ (The olfaction methodology in perfumery: possible applications for the sensory analysis of wine).
After working as an oenologist in Spain and several years dedicated to the creation of perfumes, he became an international consulting oenologist and sensory consultant. He has also taught at a number of prestigious wine schools (Changins School of Viticulture and Oenology in Switzerland, the Institute of Vine and Wine Science (ISVV) at the University of Bordeaux in France, and the AgroSup Dijon School of Agronomic Engineering, also in France).
In addition, Richard Pfister is an international expert wine judge, an OIV and VINOFED observer, a book reviewer for works submitted to the OIV Awards, an international speaker and trainer, the author of oenological articles for a number of French, Swiss and Italian journals, and, since 2006 he has been editor of Objectif (a Swiss magazine dedicated to viticulture, oenology and arboriculture).
He has been a Council member of the Fondation Internationale des Sciences et Culture de la Vigne et du Vin in Aigle, Switzerland, since 2013.
His work, ‘Les parfums du vin’ (The perfumes of wine), a book on sensory analysis, received the OIV Award in 2015.
We extend a warm welcome to Richard Pfister among the members of the OIV Award Jury!
During the press conference held at the headquarters of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, the Director General of the OIV, Pau Roca, presented the first estimations for world wine production in 2019.
2019 Wine production first data estimations
