Latest update : 1 November 2015.
Thanks to our loyal harvesters, grape pressers and drivers…
To all who have helped us in this year’s grape harvest and winemaking!
Joey, Wilfried Greg and the “girls” ... ..
Dominique, Régis, François, Thierry.
Clément et Gérard.
Morgan.
Romain, Christiane et Pepe.
The "River Experts»: Brice, Jean-Marc and Fred ...
Transport Déré, in the person of JF: already 20 years of common harvest!
Sylvie, Nono ...
Both Jean-Marc S. Wine EXPERTS ....
Laurent, Ludo, Alex .... (...)
When I last time visited Nathalie and Hubert in December (I love to go to the Champagne towards the end of the year!), they asked me to put those pictures of the 2012 harvest on the website.
The pictures have been taken in September 2012. One week of harvest a under grey but rain-free sky, picking Chardonnay grapes of the Côte des Blancs. Every acre of the small and dispersed vineyards is harvested by hand, with the help of hundreds of hands. A very fast and concentrated harvest, typical (...)
Under a grey but dry sky, Yves Gras is harvesting the last grapes of his most precocious vineyards in Gigondas and Vacqueyras. The rather international harvest team is meticulously sorting the grapes in the vineyards in a concentrated and in a jovial mood, while Yves bends over the trailer to remove the last “bad” grapes and leafs that might have fallen into the buckets. Few but juicy and savoury grapes for the 2012 vintage, by the way the first certified ORGANIC WINE of the Domaine Santa Duc, in vineyard and cellar.
The thunderstorms roaming around France towards the end of September, brought rather beneficial rain for the vineyards and grape varieties that ripen later and will be picked by mid October.
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Harvest of Vermentino at Domaine Pierre Cros in the Minervois.
continueIn the cellars of Château du Cèdre during harvest 2011.
continueHarvest of a “high density” Viognier, planted with some 8000 vines per hectare, at the Domaine de l’Arjolle in Southern France.
continueDécouvertes en Vallée du Rhône 2011 is a unique opportunity for over 700 exhibitors and wine growers to present their Protected Designation of Origin (A.O.C.) wines to visitors from 25 different countries. Thanks to the “Tables Découvertes”, winegrowers and wine merchants have the opportunity to present their special wine selections at dedicated wine-tasting tables and therefore emphasize on their most promising “cuvées”.
Watch some pictures here from the “Découvertes” in the beginning of March...
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