Being an Independent Winemaker means cultivating your own vines, making wine in your own cellar, and selling your wine while sharing your passion. The collective brand “Independent Winemaker” embodies a committed, authentic, and human approach to winegrowing.

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More than 6,000 passionate winemakers who bring the art of wine and the regions to life

Stays & activities

Want to escape to the heart of the vineyards? Cellar tours, wine tastings, walks through the vineyards, unusual experiences... Discover the world of wine in a different way thanks to wine tourism! Meet independent winegrowers and enjoy unique experiences, either close to home or during a stay in a vineyard.

A union serving winegrowers and their expertise

We are a union committed to promoting the wine sector, the professions and expertise involved in winegrowing, and defending the interests of winegrowers.
  • Insure

    through our actions, we ensure the sustainability and diversity of the art of independent winegrowers, who are the only ones to master every stage of wine production, from the vine to the bottle.

  • Innovate

    in our missions, innovate in our services, create new opportunities to enrich the lives of our community of members while preserving everyone's independence.

  • Propose

    to each of our members, content and communication materials that they can incorporate into their company's specific communications and offerings to convey the remarkable characteristics of the Independent Winegrowers.

  • Develop and invent

    solutions that promote the commercial activity of independent winegrowers in our region and abroad.

  • Promote

    tirelessly promoting to all audiences, in accordance with the law, the values, ways of being, and expertise of Independent Winegrowers, as heirs to the French winegrowing tradition.

  • Take action

    so that all political and public authorities, whether regional, national, or European, understand and recognize the value of this independence and commit to preserving, supporting, and facilitating it.

  • Improve

    once again, the functioning of our regional network must be recognized as an exemplary team for its efficiency, solidarity, fighting spirit, shared taste for challenge, and inventiveness.

  • Convince

    Independent Winegrowers who have not yet joined us should know that doing so is an essential contribution to our collective destiny, as well as a guarantee of operational, individual, effective, and sustainable benefits.

Our partners

United by our commitments, free by our wines

Since 1976, we have been defending more than 6,000 independent winegrowers who keep the vineyards alive and preserve traditional expertise.