harvest 2014 – wednesday 10th sept…

Update 13.9.2014(12.9.2014)billn

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The last bottles in Switzerland with Team NZ; who are now safely awaiting the first grapes in Beaune.

I made a bit of a booboo on Wednesday afternoon.

I took some really brilliant pictures of the few harvesters who were busying themselves, mainly around Meursault – so much-so that I couldn’t wait to review them – OOPS – the SD card from my camera was still in my laptop. No pics! Dumb, dumb, dumb…

I snapped a few with my phone afterwards, but…

Anyway… Virtually nobody in Volnay and Pommard on Wednesday afternoon – actually one lot in each. Meursault seemed the main focus, though that was also eerily free of white vans. Lafon and Roulot had been in the vines – Meursault Perrières, mainly. Also, of the half-dozen teams who were harvesting, were two harvesting machines, and both were in the 1er Crus! There are producers who, faced with not so brilliant grapes (don’t forget that Meursault was also hailed), would rather harvest by machine than pay for pickers. Although white grapes tolerate machine much better than reds, this might suggest larger quality gaps then usual between the best producers and the others…

Yesterday (Thursday) there were more people in the vines but not massively more than the day before. Temperatures were 4-5°C cooler, but still dry and sunny with about 22° in the afternoon. I left Burgundy in the afternoon, but will be back for triage, first thing on Monday morning. Daily reports will, of-course, follow.

Agree? Disagree? Anything you'd like to add?

There is one response to “harvest 2014 – wednesday 10th sept…”

  1. Mark de Morey13th September 2014 at 10:12 amPermalinkReply

    Nice pics Bill, phone or camera BUT you’ve ‘saved’ my photo life via the booboo ! I’ve been packing my stuff this a.m. (or getting it ready) but if I hadn’t seen your comments I’d have left my card reader at home which could have been a nightmare ! Now hopefully fully equipped to contribute – also from Monday onwards. Few bottles to go in the car as well 😉

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