Every month we say this is the best month to be at Rives-Blanques. Well, April really is. The place is redolent with wild flowers, birdsong, and vines full of burgeoning buds and bonhommie. It’s a ‘wish you were here’ postcard from paradise, signed by mountains singing on our horizon and the smile of a brilliant […]
Rain and unseasonably cool temperatures ushered in the month. We are watching our vines like a hawk, but as you can see if you click here, although the grapes progressed smoothly from flowering to bunch formation last month, they did not get much further. And nor did we. So veraison, when the sugar in the […]