INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION
OF WINE BROTHERHOODS
FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE
DES CONFRÉRIES BACHIQUES
Saturday June 10 in Perpignan on the occasion of the National Congress of Oenologists with the induction of the National President of Oenologists.
F.I.C.B. Newsletter n°21 (October 2025) provides news of our activities and international events. Our members are encouraged to disseminate it widely, e.g. by having a link on their website. Click here for Newsletter n°21
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Peter Hall, founder and winemaker of Breaky Bottom Vineyard in Sussex, England, who died earlier this week. Peter was honoured with the Diplome d’Honneur, of FICB nominated by the Wine Guild of the United Kingdom, presented to him last November. We would like to express our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Farewell, Peter ! Read the note sent to us by our VP Julia Trustram-Eve, from the
Bob Lindo, a former fighter pilot, founded Camel Valley vineyard in Cornwall (England) over 40 years ago,now producing red, white and rosé sparkling and still wines. Bob has been atrailblazer for UK wine, raising its global profile through award-winning winemaking,industry leadership, championing sustainability and tireless promotion both in the UKand overseas. He secured the first Royal Warrant for an English producer and hasinspired a new generation of outstanding growers and winemakers. The Wine Guild of UK proposed that Bob Lindo
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Coordination Comitee of the Ile de France Region Confréries (Brotherhoods)) had big plans: a ceremony, a mass in Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been magnificently restored after the terrible fire that devastated it six years ago. Nearly 600 people from around 60 brotherhoods attended. Aware of the appeal of a ceremony in the renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, we published an article to draw our members’ attention to it. As a result, many participants belonged
Responding to an invitation from Grand Master Nikola CUCULJ, President Marc Lesk traveled to Vršac, in the Serbian Banat region of Vojvodina, eastern Serbia, accompanied by Vice President Janesz Dezman. In Serbia, the 47th congress of FICB was held in 2012. The Saint-Théodore brotherhood, named after the hero of the fight against the Ottoman occupiers in the 16th century, held a chapter to mark its 20th anniversary, in the presence of several brotherhoods from Serbia, Romania and Hungary, in the
Our international federation needs to raise its profile to grow and attract new brotherhoods. We were given an opportunity during the chapter of the Illustrious Order of the Knights of Medusa, which promotes wines from the appellations of Mediterranean Provence. President Marc Lesk gave an interview to the Provençal newspaper Var Matin. He explained the characteristics that make wine such an emblematic beverage of our civilization : aesthetics, with its richness of smell and taste, ethics (a vector of friendship