Buy a vineyard to produce your own wine
Have you always dreamed of becoming a winegrower or winemaker? To produce your own wine, you need to buy a vineyard. But buying a vineyard is a project that deserves careful consideration. Ma-propriete-viticole.fr helps you find wine estates for sale throughout France.
Choosing your wine estate
The French climate and the large number of terroirs are particularly favourable to the cultivation of vines and the production of great wines. The 16 major French vineyards (Alsace, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Burgundy, Bugey, Champagne, Corsica, Jura, Languedoc, Lorraine, Loire, Provence, Roussillon, Rhône, Savoie, South-West) produce 3,240 different wines in 80 departments (on 750,000 hectares) and are renowned worldwide.
The quality of the wines depends on many factors: the terroir, the exposure, the grape varieties, the work of the vines, the vinification and the climatic particularities of each year. Each wine estate makes its own choice of grape varieties according to the regulations of its Protected Designation of Origin but also according to the properties of the soil and its geographical location. Although 200 grape varieties are authorised in France, the main ones used are nearly 70% red grape varieties: merlot, grenache noir, cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir, carignan, poulsard and trousseau; and white grape varieties: ugni blanc, chardonnay, sauvigon and savagnin.
How much does a vineyard cost?
The purchase of a vineyard is an important investment, but the price will vary greatly depending on the composition of the vineyard (vines, cellars, equipment, stock of wine, etc.) and its location. The price of a hectare of vines can range from €10,000/ha to several million €/ha in certain Burgundy crus. It is also possible to invest by buying vines (to rent them to a winegrower), by becoming a partner in a wine company or by buying shares in Groupements Fonciers Viticoles. Buying shares in a GFV will allow you to receive rent in the form of bottles: a pleasant and profitable investment.
