Arlaud Vendange Day 4, Tuesday 27th Sept 2016 Am starting to type this at 6.24 a.m Saturday morning, grabbing some rare free time, having managed to get Day 3 stuff to Bill last night. Its raining outside and has been heavily overnight I think so today (Saturday) could be ‘hilarious’… Read More

Arlaud Vendange Day 3, Monday 26th Sept 2016 The aforementioned rest day arrives. ‘Overslept’ until 7.30, extremely fatigued by the previous two days exertions, but was still first into the refectoire. Boy though, was I stiff in the legs and hips areas. Initially, I concentrated on computing, writing, camera… Read More

Arlaud Vendange Day 2, Sunday 25th Sept 2016 Similar morning start to Saturday, one or two new faces presenting documents, some others from the day before not turned up. New faces included the most extraordinary looking character I think I’ve ever seen vendange time. Turned out to be a girl… Read More

Arlaud Vendange Day 1, Saturday 24th Sept 2016 Bonjour Bill et tout le monde. J’arrive sur la Cote Friday evening after leaving my North West England home for Dover circa 2.15 a.m Friday morning. J’a une petite probleme avec ma voiture on the Autoroute about an hour from Dijon when… Read More

Arlaud Vendange Day 3 – Weds 9th Sept 2015 Quick recap back to day two – did I mention in referencing the Morey Village that such included Morey Clos Solon ? It did/does, where I believe Arlaud both own vines but certainly have negoce fruit available. The Clos Solon fruit… Read More

Arlaud Vendange Day Two – Tuesday, 08 09 2015 Time is at an absolute premium during one’s vendange, and I’m not joking. I don’t know how Bill does what he does (seriously) with the website as well as his ‘main’ duties 😉 . Quick snapshot of how my day… Read More

Arlaud Vendange 2015 – Monday 7th Sept 2015 ( and un peu Sunday) Sunday :- Bonjour toute le monde ! Je suis arrive !!! In Morey-St-Denis that is for my 8th vendange avec le premier equipe de Morey. Various conflicting potential start dates by email to my banking day… Read More