We had it all this year: heart-stopping moments, extreme cold, extreme heat – late flowering of the vines, hail in the neighbourhood just before the harvest … and now the wines are meditating away in the dark quiet of our cellars, and all is well with the world. It was an interesting year, a challenging […]
As if they know the game is over, the vines start glowing gold, and a fire of burnished bronze sweeps over the vineyard. It is Autumn and the party is over. Inside the cellars, all the barrels have finished fermenting, excepting for the Late Harvest, and a happy silence reigns. It is Autumn indeed. In […]
September came to our plateau in October; the weather we wanted for the harvest rolled out and covered the vines in sunshine and light. Only trouble is, the harvest was basically over. And as if they know the game is up, the vines start turning yellow, slowly burning burnished gold over our fields. This promises […]
August closed with a spectacular clash of cymbals and a dramatic drum-roll of thunder; we had asked for 20 mm of rain, but got 23 mm instead, which is nice. A stiff, fresh northerly wind blew September in, just what the doctor ordered for the health and happiness of our grapes and ourselves. This time […]
August sweeps in, in a blast of hot air. The vines react and push the grapes into “veraison”, first the chardonnay, and then the chenin blanc and the mauzac. If they have read the same text book, then this onset of ripening means we can expect the harvest to start in about 40 days or […]