Adaptation, Development, Environment, Health and Society

The CERVIN Laboratory at Michel de Montaigne University – Bordeaux3, founded in 1970 by Professor Alain Huetz-de-Lemps, has amassed expertise and knowledge about the world's vineyards, as mentioned by its founder in our History section.

The changes in university research and the current obligations for researchers to join very large units led to its disappearance in the late 2000s. A small number of researchers and sympathizers with a passion for multidisciplinary, human and social scientific research on vineyards, and on the Bordeaux vineyard in particular, have carried on CERVIN's work by creating an association based at the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin - Bordeaux-Aquitaine, where its substantial documentary resources have been incorporated into the Institute's library. Today, CERVIN is an association dedicated to research and to promoting and developing Vine & Wine science.
This research aims to further the study of winemaking civilizations and their multiple achievements in time and space. Historians, geographers, jurists, arts specialists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, agronomists and oenologists are all contributing to the development of the overarching and multidisciplinary thinking. CERVIN is open to all partners from different wine-related sectors and is seeking to incorporate all stakeholders in the wine industry. The association's projects include organizing round-table discussions and colloquia, study trips, publications and the dissemination of vine & wine-related knowledge in human and social sciences.