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Glasgow Fun…
What a week! It started with a 4:15am alarm call last Friday and a flight to the UK, finally returning late Thursday night. In between there was the wine-pages.com superBOWL in Glasgow where one or two bottles were consumed, actually about 500 in one day by less than 70 people! Of-course that was on the Saturday – so there was much practising on Friday evening too… Then Monday to Thursday, a whirlwind tour of Bradford(!) and London with three Russian colleagues; my amex will hopefully get a week or two of rest now. Finally today a flying visit to Marsannay (actually Chenove) then Beaune, if the dog didn’t need collecting from the kennels, I’d be able to have a lie-in tomorrow…
Friday…Do You Know The Way to Montrachet?
Action packed day… a little work at Domaine pumping down wine and then off to visit some marquis sites in the Cote de Beanue. It was the prettiest day yet, so photo opps at the vineyards such as Montrachet and Genevrieres were perfect. While taking a few photos of the Montrachet vineyards, we exchanged pleasantries with a woman harvesting grapes with her crew in “Caillerets,” a Monopole vineyard of Domaiine Chartron. Turns out she is the sister of Chartron and she insisted that we meet her brother to taste some their wines…OK twist my tongue. That is one thing that continues to impress me about the people of Burgundy….their hospitality and kindness even when they are busy. We tasted a few their Premier Crus and [....]
Thursday: I’d Walk a Mile For a Camus.
Thursday was jammed packed with good stuff. We harvested grapes in Pommard just above “Les Charmots” and then in the afternoon just over line in Beaune. This was another picture perfect day with cool, dry weather and sunshine and clouds. The weather for harvest is perfect. Like I’ve said before, this is hard work. I worked tractor detail today… dropping the empty cartons along the rows and then coming back to put them on the tractor after they are filled. It is trully amazing how quickly a vineyard can be harvested with a good group of people. In addition to having fun, these folks know the meaning of teamwork. We knocked out an entire vineyard before lunch. And we had the red wine stained hands [....]
If at first … etc. trie, trie & trie again
Just back from 3 days at the triage table, and it was great, good and oh my god in terms of the grapes. Where there was hail and rot we were discarding as much as 25% of what was brought in – and remember that there was already a rough and ready trie at the vines! Finished the day with Corton Rognets and these were beautiful grapes, very ripe, very clean but interestingly with the greenest stems I’ve seen all week. I think we did a pretty good job and look forward to tasting the wines as they develop. The majority of the grapes are now in, Domaine d’Ardhuy still have their Corton-Charlemagne to harvest, but their reds were done a day or two ago. [....]
