My whole body aches, and I can barely keep my eyes open, but we had such a great I just had to put some photos up! We finished our biggest vineyard today after two days off! It rained pretty hard...
Yesterday morning I went down to the vineyards to sample the grapes. I filled a large ziploc bag with grapes randomly selected throughout our 3 largest vineyards (the mourvèdre definitely needing more time). As I was walking through my favorite...
Sunday morning we decided to pull the trigger and bring in the whites, well what was left of them. The day before it seems the boars got a little hungry and did some pretty extensive sampling of both vineyards. We...
Well the roller coaster ride that is 2008 continues here in the Southern Rhône. Earlier this week we received juice analyses on our Roussanne that convinced us that we should harvest them today, before there was more rain predicted, more...
It's always a rush when harvest gets started. Being awoken at 5:30 by the sound of the harvesting machines driving by the house yesterday morning, I lay in bed excited, even though we would never dream of using machines to...
On Monday a journalist from the regional paper called the Midi Libre came to interview me for a series of articles he's doing on the "vendanges" or grape harvest. It was lots of fun since he had read through a...
Last weekend I took a couple of days off to play. Well, and maybe to work a bit too, learn a bit, taste a bit, and to exchange ideas. The occasion was the European Wine Bloggers Conference, the location was...
Ok, so here goes again, though this time it might be a bit worse! Remember two years ago when we were having fun sticking import stickers on all of the bottles we were sending to the US? Well for the...
We've been spending time checking out the grapes lately, walking through each vineyard carefully inspecting the bunches to look for signs of anything wrong... Well, kind of. At this point now that we're fully into "veraison" downy mildew isn't really...
Ok, so I've just spent all morning making this new banner for the blog, but even after I followed the instructions (I think!) it still doesn't look right at the top of the page!!! Is there anyone out there that...
Despite all of the rain we had in May, suddenly a couple of our vineyards are suffering from lack of rain. The French have a saying: "un binage vaut deux arrosages" which translates into: "one hoeing is worth two waterings."...
Take a look at this: This is a picture of our Syrah taken last week on July 28th, no sign of color change yet! This was taken on July 18th last year. I guess that means that harvest will be...
Spring and early summer vineyard work require you to spend a fair amount of time suckering, spraying, "Weed Badgering" etc. and there are certain items that I could not get along without, so I thought I'd share the list with...
I usually hate it when wineries use their blog just to tell people where to find the wines, but I haven't done this in awhile, and we've been shipping to lots of different states, so I thought you might enjoy...
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