What our grapes need is a bit of that pedal power, so closely and keenly felt here when the Tour de France wheeled in and then out of Limoux earlier this month. Instead, they have been idling, dawdling, dragging their heels and promising us a harvest that may start considerably later than last year. But […]
Wine competitions can be fickle friends. So we are completely unembarrassed by the embarrassment of riches pouring from our wines: more gold medals from Decanter World Wine Awards than any other vineyard in the Languedoc (La Trilogie and Dédicace); the second gold medal in a row for our pink fizz, Vintage Rose 2009 from the […]
Pretty as a picture: there is a lot going on in the vineyard right now. A pure work of art, you could say. Our vines, and the barley and vetch growing between them have been joyfully gulping down all the rain free-falling from the skies this month … rain that should have fallen in January. […]
We’ve had a lot of the wrong kind of right weather: a seamless stream of uniformly brilliant sunlit days and clear skies right through the month of March and into April. In a word, pure perfection. But the trouble is, we want rain. Lots of it. So far less than half of what we need […]
VINE LINES APRIL – MAY 2012 A monthly newsletter on the wines, vines and times at Rives-Blanques If this page is a blank, or has lost its pictures, please click here Pretty as a picture: there is a lot going on in the vineyard right now. A pure work of art, you could say. Our […]