Women Staking Their Domaines as Winemakers
 July 8, 2010 –
“To say that women have been discouraged from winemaking in Burgundy would be to underestimate the barriers,” reports
W. Blake Gray in the
Los Angeles Times.
“For many years there was a belief that if a woman walked into a winery, the wine would spoil. We’re not talking about a superstition from the
Dark Ages either.”
“As recently as 2000,
when Anne Parent and
Virginie Taupenot-Daniel
started their association of Burgundy’s women winemakers, Femmes & Vins de Bourgogne, they could find only six. That’s from a region with more than 4,000 domaines.” Continue reading…
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