{"id":4434,"date":"2018-07-03T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/2018\/07\/03\/jean-robert-pitte-receives-the-f-i-c-b-diploma-of-honour\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T11:41:21","slug":"jean-robert-pitte-receives-the-f-i-c-b-diploma-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/2018\/07\/03\/jean-robert-pitte-receives-the-f-i-c-b-diploma-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Robert Pitte receives the F.I.C.B. Diploma of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The F.I.C.B. Diploma of Honor is awarded either to former members of the F.I.C.B. Executive Committee who have contributed to its international notoriety, or to important personnalities globally recognized for their expertise and achievements in relation to wine and who support and share the values of our wine brotherhoods.<\/p>\n\n

On 30 June 2018, the F.I.C.B. Diploma of Honor was presented to M. Jean-Robert PITTE by Alan BRYDEN, the president of F.I.C.B., in the presence of Paul COULON, Vice-president of F.I.C.B. for the South of France. The presentation took place in the context of the 4th \u00ab international symposium of enlightened wine connoisseurs \u00bb held at the Palais des Papes in Avignon (France). This symposium, presided over by Marcel GUIGAL, the first wine maker and merchant in the Rh\u00f4ne Valley, gathered over 100 participants around the theme of \u00ab appellations d\u2019origine contr\u00f4l\u00e9e \u00bb.<\/em> They benefitted from presentations by prestigious speakers such as Jean-Louis PITON, of the French \u00ab Institut National des Appellations d\u2019Origine \u00bb (I.N.A.O.), Ms Jocelyne PERARD, in charge of the UNESCO chair\u00ab Wine and Tradition \u00bb, Thierry SABON, president of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des Syndicats de Producteurs de Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape, Th\u00e9odore GEORGOPOULOS, president of the Institut Georges Chappaz on vine and wine in Champagne, Philippe FAURE-BRAC, president of the French Union of Sommeliers or Bernard BURTSCHY, president the French wine press association. <\/p>\n\n

Jean-Robert PITTE is a French geographer specialized in landscapes, terroirs and gastronomy. Among many positions, he chairs the French Geographic Society and the French Mission on heritage and food cultures, which supported and obtained in 2010 the listing of the \u00ab French gastronomic meal \u00bb<\/em> in the World immaterial cultural heritage UNESCO). He is a member of the Academy of French Wines, which he chaired from 2010 to 2016. He chairs also the festival \u00ab books in vines \u00bb organized each year at the Ch\u00e2teau of Clos-de-Vougeot. <\/p>\n\n

Jean-Robert PITTE is Permanent Secretary of the French Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He has lectured and taught in over 30 countries, in particular in Japan where he was made in 2015 a \u00ab Distinguished Professor \u00bb<\/em> at the Graduate School of Global Food Resources of the University of Hokkaido. He has been inducted by many wine brotherhoods, i.a. by the Echansonnerie des Papes which presented his candidacy for the F.I.C.B. Diploma of Honour. (Link to Jean-Robert PITTE’s biography : https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Robert_Pitte \/ Link to the programme of the 4th Symposium of enlightened wine connoisseurs: www.chateauneuf.com\/4eme-journees-internationales-des-amateurs-eclaires-de-vin) <\/p>\n\n

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Alan Bryden presents the Diploma to Jean-Robert Pitte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A close up of the Diploma:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jean-Robert Pitte, with the F.I.C.B. medal, acknowledges the Diploma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

photo credit: Patrick Bou\u00e9 : boue.patrick@wanadoo.fr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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