Saint-Vincent Tournante
The Saint-Vincent Tournante festival was originally a professional event for Burgundian winemakers and is now one of the most famous Burgundian wine festivals, attracting more than ten thousand visitors every year. It is named after the patron saint of French winemakers, Vincent of Valencia .
The events take place in changing locations (French: tournante ) annually on the weekend according to the remembrance day of St. Vincent, which is anchored in the general Roman calendar , on January 22nd.
history
The origin of the event goes back to the Middle Ages, when professional groups, the sociétés de secours mutuel , emerged in many wine towns in Burgundy . The French Revolution abolished corporations and brotherhoods. However, during the 19th century the brotherhoods revived as an association of mutual aid to meet the needs of their member winemakers. The purpose was to pay for medical treatment or burial and grave costs and to have masses celebrated for peace of mind.
The traditional events of the Saint-Vincent brotherhoods recorded a decline in the 1930s, and fewer and fewer localities were willing to support this festival. The Burgundian wine industry, as well as the German, plagued considerable sales concerns, even with the Grand Cru locations. The causes were, among other things, the abstinence movement , but also the late effects of the First World War. France held large parts of the German state territory on the left bank of the Rhine, with its large vineyards, and levied export duties to the former Reich territory. The state and its institutions were overwhelmed with the task of promoting the wine industry and the wine industry itself had neither the strength nor the resources to break out of the slump in sales. So they looked for new ways to increase sales and revenues.
It was not until 1938 that the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin organized a first revival of the Saint-Vincent events, which took place in Chambolle-Musigny , near the Grangie Vougeot. In January 1939 the second event followed in Vosne-Romanée , which was already taking place on a larger scale than in the previous year. The Second World War prevented further festivities until the Renaissance in 1947.
After its revival, Saint-Vincent tournante developed its own momentum and the number of visitors grew from year to year. After a high point at the beginning of the 21st century, people are now returning to their roots and trying to give the festival a more intimate character.
procedure
The Comité de la d'organisation St. Vincent Tournante the Wine Brotherhood decides on the organizing town and watches over the running of the event to the original character to keep the feast.
The two-day festival combines the tasting of the cuvées de la Saint-Vincent Tournante with ceremonies such as the procession of the 80 Sociétés de Saint-Vincent with their traditional banners and Vincentian sculptures, worship, enthronement or the admission of new members to the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Graff: The German wine industry after the First World War (= writings on wine history, No. 155). Society for the History of Wine , Wiesbaden 2007, ISSN 0302-0967 .