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CIVB elects new president
Allan Sichel of Maison Sichel has been appointed the new president of the Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) for the next three years.
Credit: JB Nadeau, CIVB
Of dual French and English nationality, Sichel has been at the helm of his family’s negociant business, Maison Sichel since 1998 and succeeds winegrower Bernard Farges as the CIVB’s new president.
Sichel has held several positions and responsibilities within the wine trade on both regional and national levels and as a wine merchant, follows the CIVB’s rules of alternating the presidency between a winegrower and a merchant.
His family’s business began in 1856 in Germany and moved to Bordeaux’s Chartrons district in 1883 where the company started procuring wines for the Sichel groups in Mainz, London and New York.
Founded in 1948, the CIVB represents 6,460 winegrowers, 300 wine traders and 84 brokers across 111,150 hectares and 65 appellations and in 2015, reported a €3.8 billion turnover.