Saturday March 1 Flying high Nice way to begin the month, with the news that our AOP Limoux blend la TriLogie 2012 has won a gold medal at the granddaddy of all wine competitions, the Concours Général de Paris. This is part of the competition started by the French government in 1800-something, to identify the […]
Maybe it’s a Catholic sense of guilt that makes the local Limouxins say so gloomily, “rain’s on the way again” as they admire this panorama of gleaming mountains hanging like freshly washed laundry against a pristine and perfectly blue sky. That is how February came to our plateau: on a plate, and dressed to kill. […]
The month freewheeled in on a slipstream of unreasonably unseasonable weather, easing us into Vintage 2014 with a warm, deceptively gentle little shove. Pruning the vines is moving at a fast pace, as we make hay while the sun shines, so to speak. Silence reigns in the cellars, thank goodness. Last month Eric roared at […]
We woke up and found it was December. Which is odd, because a few recalcitrant barrels are still fermenting … so it should be late October, or at a pinch, early November – at the very, very latest. When this is all over, 2013 will go down in our books as the Year of the […]
Aftermath generally refers to after a disaster, and this was not one. But the fact remains, we feel as if we have been through a storm: exhausted, but glad to be alive. And the funny thing is, the harvest of 2013 wasn’t even all that “difficult”; in fact, it was quite well behaved in that […]