By billn on February 17, 2009
A bookend on 2008 from the BIVB: The 2008 Burgundy harvest is down 5.3 % on the 2007 harvest, and 4.4% against the average of the past five years. It amounts to the equivalent of 193 million bottles for a virtually unchanged production area (-0.2 %) of 27,626 hectares. With the exception of the small heat-induced 2003 harvest, it is 10 years since the harvest was so low. As for red wines, with the equivalent of 60 million bottles (-6 %), there had not been such a small harvest (with the exception of 2003) since 1984. White wine production is also down by 6 % at the equivalent of 116 million bottles, with regional AOCs and Mâconnais wines the most affected. Only Crémant de Bourgogne [....]
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By billn on December 11, 2008
A bit of fun from David Clark – will be interesting to follow….
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By Goughie13 on October 24, 2008
The last picture selection from Mark: The first four pictures all coming off Bonnes Mares looking towards Morey: The last four are the team at the end ! Me bottom right front row in 111 & 112 next to Amy Winehouse look alike Sandrine. Mark de Morey
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By Goughie13 on October 23, 2008
Serge is in the grey hoodie pening the large format bottle and with the cake. Lovely man. The rest of the party are Herve Arlaud, Romain Arlaud (dark curly hair & plaster cast on wrist) and my domaine resident fellow vendangeurs including Sophie, la belge. Mark de Morey
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By Goughie13 on October 22, 2008
More photos from Arlaud. These are all from our first day, 27/9, picking Bourgogne Rouge grapes below the RN74. Herve Ar;aud is the grey haired guy in pale polo shirt on the right in No 12. No 29 has one of the great larger than life characters amingst our crew, local Jean-Pierre Feral, with patron Herve Arlaud – the latter with atypical cigarette. J-PF & HA kept up a continual , ongoing banter about all & sundry even whilst we were in the vines which was the source of much constant amusement (except fully to me as I couldnt understand it unfortunately !!). Mark de Morey
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By Goughie13 on October 21, 2008
Photos of cuverie and triage table. Very impressive new build modern set up – must have cost a bit. 3 or 4 yrs old. The fork lift takes the metal ‘tub’ from under the sorting table and is able to rotate it to tip the grapes into the tanks. In photo 20 Cyprien Arlaud is facing the camera foreground in the pale beige fleece. Stagiste Peter is in the black vest type T shirt and ‘above’ him is patron, Herve Arlaud – a really great guy. Typical end of day wind down drink in the ‘refecture’ – the local vendangeurs before going home for the day. The collages on the walls behind are collections of photos of previous vintage vendanges. The second two photos of [....]
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By Goughie13 on October 20, 2008
‘Mark de Morey’ was eventually found – not at the bottom of the destemmer, rather with a full inbox in his Blackberry – de rigeur for pickers this year you know! Trying to fix both that and his cherished camera slowed him down a little, but unbowed, here’s the continuation of his story… Domaine Arlaud Diary Monday 29th Sept My notes, now, several days later, tell me we did Morey Les Blanchards premier cru this morning and afternoon we did Morey Les Milandes premier cru although has been suggested we did the latter yesterday – your writer now confused.com !! By checking the Morey map in Coates latest tome am sure doing ‘Blanchards’ morning was correct – supported by one or two photos taken, including [....]
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By billn on October 8, 2008
Posts on this are getting fewer and farther apart as the harvest is all-but completed. My home domaine reports that the Gevrey grand crus that were harvested at the beginning of this week exceeded expectation. The Latricières from this grower is frankly always ‘poor looking’ and this year a full 20% was discarded during triage (that’s a lot!) but what remained looked better even than in 2005! Considering the winemaker thought he might turn down the fruit 3 weeks ago, he was completely amazed. Actually there is still some fruit to harvest, and that’s in the Hautes Côtes – this will be done at the end of this week in sunshine and the warmest temperatures for a month – 23°C is forecast. What of what [....]
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By billn on October 6, 2008
It’s a little too early to check with the ‘home’ domaine, but I can provide you with the reports frm Domaine de la Vougeraie as I had some trouble getting them from the site: Tuesday 30th Wednedsay 1st Thursday 2nd A further update this tomorrow.
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By billn on October 4, 2008
The weather has caught a few out. Midweek it was forecast to be dry and mainly sunny for the weekend; it has actually lightly rained today, and will probably be the same tomorrow and maybe Monday too. A few domaine’s that planned a quiet(er) weekend have been in the vines today, others wait. As Ardhuy finished their harvest yesterday, there is now time for Carel Voorhuis to share some of his ‘holiday’ (I mean harvest) snapshots…
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By billn on October 3, 2008
Carel Voorhuis of Domaine d’Ardhuy provides today’s scribbled summary while on the move: Triage : potentially nothing, or at least not much. Quite amazing, it really came to a surprise, but I had a whole crew ready for the sorting table, but the worst we’ve had was Clos des Langres (organically grown, even if not certified), with maybe 10% in the vineyards plus another 2-3% on the table. Potential alcohols were OK : I expected them to be lower, and even feared that we sometimes wouldn’t reach the legal minimum, but in fact, they were quite comfortable, starting with an 11.1 for the Bourgogne rouge, and reaching 13 (clos des Langres) to 13.5 (Charlemagne) Colours of the first pinots we’ve picked seem a bit light, [....]
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By billn on October 2, 2008
A nice report from Domaine de la Vougeraie. A message and pics from Domaine Lafarge: Les vendanges, débutées le 24 Septembre, se déroulent sous le soleil malgré la fraîcheur matinale. Le vent du Nord qui a soufflé ces derniers jours a favorisé la concentration et la pleine maturité est atteinte partout. Les degrés en rouge se situent entre 11,8 et 12,8 %. Du fait de la grêle, la récolte est relativement peu importante et lres rendements en jus sont peu élevés. Les poudrage à l’argile et les pulvérisations de silice après la grêle, nous permettent de rentrer une vendange très mûre et saine. Merci la biodynamie! Chantal, Domaine Michel Lafarge Pictures from Domaine Lafarge:
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