The Vivan Cooperative Journal

Les Obrieres bottling wines bottles
The wine industry is broken. Here's how we fix it
Where your bottle's price goes, why cheap wine squeezes the grower, and how a shorter route from vineyard to door helps. Read more...
One year without pesticides: "a moon landscape" came alive
One year without pesticides: "a moon landscape" came alive
Anne Lekkerkerker moved from Amsterdam to Beaujolais to run a B&B and ended up making organic wine. In her own words: a 2024 harvest of about a quarter, a vineyard... Read more...
Wildflowers and grass cover between the vines at Les Vignes de Yavanna
What goes into a £10 bottle of wine? Only £1.93 is the wine
Tax takes £4.77 of a £10 bottle. The wine gets £1.93. Here is the full breakdown, and why roughly a third of what you pay Vivan for a case goes... Read more...
Clos Costela vineyard in the mountains of Penedès, Catalonia
"We don't make a living from it": Toni Puerma of Clos Costela
Toni Puerma makes natural, no-added-sulphite wine high in the mountains of Penedès. In his own words: the falcon overhead, the ancestrals that make him nervous, and why he still can't... Read more...
Anne Harvesting
France's Smallest Wine Harvest Since 1957 — Why Buying Direct Matters More This Year
France's 2026 wine harvest is the smallest since 1957. Plus: who actually pays for cheap wine, why the "Gen Z is quitting alcohol" story doesn't hold up, and why Vivan... Read more...
Joachim and Christoph Unterhofer walking away through the Reyter vineyard in South Tyrol
Reyter — Italian Wines with an Austrian Touch
Meet Reyter — the first and only Italian winemaker in the Vivan cellar. Organic since 1996, century-old vines, and rare PIWI grapes nobody else is bottling like this. Read more...
Sunrise over Malia's vineyard with trees in the background
Regenerative wine: soil-first farming that transforms taste
Regenerative wine goes beyond organic — rebuilding soil health season by season. What separates genuine practice from marketing claims, with a look at how Tomasso farms at Malia Read more...
Hand-worked cellar practices at Karma Village, Rhône
How to Find Organic & Biodynamic Wines Online in the UK
After more than a decade sourcing certified wines for Vivan Wine Cooperative, here's what every buyer should know: the language around organic and biodynamic wines online is genuinely confusing —... Read more...
Rainbow over Domain Lachat
What Is Blouge?
Blouge is France's hottest natural wine trend — a chilled red-white co-ferment that's almost impossible to find in the UK. Here's what it is, its history, and how Beaujolais winemaker... Read more...
Two harvest workers hand-picking grapes between vine rows in an English vineyard, early morning, 2026
The Earliest Harvest We've Ever Known
Nobody we work with has seen anything like it. 2026's harvest is already underway across Europe — weeks early, in some places the earliest in five centuries. Here's what's driving... Read more...
Is Vivan Wine Cooperative worth it? An honest answer
Is Vivan Wine Cooperative worth it? An honest answer
Is Vivan Wine Cooperative worth it? That's a fair question, and here's something you probably weren't expecting at the top of a product review: this piece was written on behalf... Read more...
Family cycling in the vineyards
From Bicycles to Wine: Sustainability in Motion
From cycling charity founder to natural wine cooperative — Gregory Kinsman-Chauvet shares how two wheels and a glass of wine led him to build Vivan, Europe's first marketplace dedicated to... Read more...