Our harvest day number 8…
Pernand Sous Fretille was our starting point today – two parcels amounting to half a hectare; ‘young’ 25 year old vines, the other part about 70 years old near the cemetery and Domaine Rapet…
Of-course a morning of white included the obligatory enforced pause for the press! Anyway, beautiful stuff – practically as good as yesterday’s grapes from Corton-Charlemagne.
Naturally, waiting time in the morning means fast running in the afternoon to keep up – we had our last deliveries of Les Bons Feuvres followed by more Beaune – Montée Rouge this time. Here for the first time there is some rot to triage – apparently, though I didn’t see any, there were a few hail impacts here which helped the development of mildew. No problem, it was classic mid-bunch rot – two incisions, keep the top and tail, throw away the middle…
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Eagerly following your harvest reports. What are the red bunches that arrive with the Chardonnay?
What do you do with the “off color” grapes?
Those red bunches are not red Fred 🙂
They are off-brown – depending on your locale, they are called either pinot beurot, pinot gris or pinot grigio – and they don’t affect the colour of the wine so are not removed…