A jog from Nuits to Vosne – and back again.

I saw Guillaume Tardy – he told me that he lost 10-15% of his Nuits Bas du Combe to hail impacts on Friday evening – which is on the northern side of Nuits – but vines he has on either side of these were unaffected – so it was very localised – I have seen some very modest impacts in Vosne though practically nothing. I do note that even some of the smartest of vineyards have a far from elegant caking of almost dry mud at the bottom of the slopes – a lot of rain that was delivered on Friday evening.

There is some green harvesting underway in the grand crus of Vosne, though mainly just leaf-thinning in La Tâche. As for harvesting, Guillaume is thinking 05-08September to start, but he’ll take stock when he comes back from his (imminent) holiday!
 

In Nuits…

Dried mud in the bottom of Nuits 1er Aux Murgers

Vosne Jachées with small hail impacts

Sun-burn on Romanée St.Vivant

Looking back to Vosne from Romanée St.Vivant

Romanée St.Vivant green harvest

Happy wasp – in Romanée-Conti

Romanée-Conti

La Tâche

Over La Tâche to Vosne

Malconsorts

Interesting ‘cypress’ pruning – not sure if this is the end of Aux Reas, or already Les Jacquines – I think the latter…

A stroll around the village of Chassagne this afternoon – like most of the Côte d’Or, and despite the nice picture I shared of veraision in Corton on 9 July – veraison is still on a low level in both the Côte de Beaune and the Côte de Nuits. In the middle of this week Boris Champy at the Clos de Lambrays told me that they had only 2-3% veraison.

Of note was a big storm on Friday evening – about 11pm with very heavy bursts of rain and enough wind to bring small branches down from trees – but I’ve not encountered reports of any damage.

[EDIT: I spoke to Guillaume Tardy on Monday – he tells me that he lost 10-15% of his Nuits Bas du Combe to hail impacts – which is on the northern side of Nuits – but vines he has on either side of these which were unaffected – so it was very localised – I have seen some very modest impacts in Vosne – practically nothing – take a look at Monday’s images…]

Generally in the vines there is still a small amount of ploughing, vine triming and some last treatments – you are not allowed to harvest within 30 days of your last treatment, so there’s still a few days of potential treatments to go in the chardonnay, if harvesting commences towards the end of August – as seems likely.
 

Not much veraison – Clos St.Jean

The châteaux of Chassagne…

Chassagne!

Clos St.Jean

Clos St.Jean

The end of Clos St.Jean

A little complicated Caillerets…

Clos St.Jean

1er cru tomatoes – Les Rebichets…

Clos St.Jean

A jog through some sticky vineyards around Beaune; Grèves, Teurons, Reversées, Clos de la Mousse and Les Avaux. This low-slope, central part of Beaune – nearest the town centre where the hail was heavy – no damage – I could hardly find a single leaf with a hole in it, maybe just one cluster showing a hail impact in Les Avaux! Hopefully it plays out this way across all of Burgundy and beyond…
 

l’Aigue – it’s not normally this colour…

Beaune Grèves

Right Gréves, left Bas de Teurons

Teurons

Les Teurons

Les Reversées

Clos de la Mousse

Maybe one hail-impact found in Les Avaux…