Jean-Luc Barbier, a name that resonates in the minds of champagne industry professionals. And rightly so, since Jean-Luc Barbier has worked for the Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (now Comité Champagne) for 37 years. Today, as a lecturer at the University of Reims and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mission Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne-Patrimoine mondial, he recounts in this book several decades of action to protect the Champagne appellation around the world, but also against usurpation of all kinds (cigarettes, perfumes and other products wrongly labelled "Champagne").
A veritable epic of an exciting adventure, combining service to Champagne professionals with an ongoing, relentless battle to defend the Champagne appellation, this book is above all a behind-the-scenes account of a respected and unique institution. A work that clarifies the singularity of the interprofession that unites all the Vignerons and Maisons de Champagne.
Moments of life, of exchange, of taking firm positions, but also a historical journey, mixed with real-life experience, of a busy professional life with the sole aim of serving the interests of the appellation and the region. From the origins of the interprofessional organization, the creation of the CIVC in 1941, the period of German occupation and the Champagne resistance, the specific legal status of the CIVC to the actions taken to protect the prestigious appellation against its use in Brazil, India, Moldavia, Russia, China, Canada and the United States.
Jean-Luc Barbier also recounts the behind-the-scenes story of the Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne bid to be included on UNESCO's prestigious World Heritage List.
"In Champagne and elsewhere. Interprofession et appellation, tale of a memorable epic. " A book prefaced by Théodore Georgopoulos, director of the "Wine and Law" program at the University of Reims, Jean-Luc Barbier's work, published by éditions Méroé, is available in bookshops and online for €34.
Jean-Luc Barbier is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms, an Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit, and a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.