By billn on October 5, 2012
Some reading to cartch-up on: Lovely account of the harvest chez Pacalet published by Bert yesterday. Alberic’s view Louis-Fabrice starts downbeat… Patrick Essa’s view
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By billn on October 3, 2012
And no, I’m not talking about the Hautes Côtes! I understand that Laurent Ponsot’s team finally swung into action this week – he started on Monday (1st Oct.) and will be working through this week – and who knows, maybe a bit of next week too! Here’s a nice view. And this may be a […]
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By billn on October 2, 2012

JN Gagnard’s pic: Clos Bortier Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune (red) being harvested 1st October. I’m slightly bemused by the language, only because it sounds like there are real wines to commented on – virtually nothing has yet finished alcoholic fermentation, indeed much has not started to ferment – yet the sentiment is fine, plus […]
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By billn on October 1, 2012

Last year it was relatively easy to make some broad-brush descriptions of the vintage. This year it really isn’t so easy. The growing season has delivered very little consistency in terms of yield – it’s very low but not consistently-so. Poor weather at flowering was the starting point, followed by frosts, constant rain, then later […]
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By billn on September 30, 2012
We crush the whites by foot before pressing. Note they are crushed by naked virgins, something few wineries still do. twitter.com/JeremySeysses/… — Jeremy Seysses (@JeremySeysses) September 30, 2012
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By billn on September 28, 2012

I understand that the Clos de Tart has just started its harvest today, whilst the home domaine is still waiting for their last grapes from the 2012 campaign – Chambertin – they will be picked this afternoon, but that will be too late for me as I’m heading home tonight. The grapes will be quite […]
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By billn on September 27, 2012

The home domaine was on a fruitless day – still no decision on when the Chambertin would be picked – so I accepted an invitation to help at Chandon de Briailles. The domaine has, so-far, brought in about half their fruit – all the whites are done – today we were going to do a […]
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By billn on September 26, 2012

To a soundtrack of Johnny Cash and Massive Attack we make our own attack on the grapes of Lavaux St.Jacques and Maranges Croix de Moines – happy under our cover from incessant rain. [Edit: The rain lasted for 30 hours, delivering 50mm!] The Gevrey is lovely – we use about one-third whole clusters – and […]
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By billn on September 25, 2012

Too true. This morning we have managed to keep completely dry, despite a little rain in some parts of the Côtes. Lots of grapes to pick today as the forecast is rather bad for tommorrow. People are racing against the elements… Our grapes today have been against (my) expectations – in both directions! Opening with […]
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By billn on September 24, 2012

There was a lot of rain overnight, fortunately the daytime was drier. The morning was punctuated by some heavy bursts, but only for 10-15 minutes at time – p.m. was mainly dry. Our first grapes of the day were from the Santenay 1er of La Comme – quite a bit of triage needed here – […]
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By billn on September 23, 2012

Starting with bit of an advertorial from François Labet at Château La Tour in the Clos de Vougeot. We just started slowly and our forecast looks quite accurate. We picked yesterday the young vines replanted in the Vieilles Vignes plots at Chateau de la Tour. We expect to produce about 50% of a normal harvest!!! […]
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By billn on September 22, 2012
Starting with two views… Miserable day in Burgundy. Rain overnight and drizzling now. Not good for the grapes. — Nayan Gowda (@vinosity) September 22, 2012 Rainfall from yest to this morning. 32mm in Savigny, 22mm in Volnay.Given the drought in the past5 weeks, I think the vines can take it. — TomokoKuriyama (@TomokoKuriyama) September 22, […]
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