DOG DAYS AT RIVES-BLANQUES, July 2015 It’s the Canicule! A stultifying, stupefying, grinding, relentless, unforgiving and exhausting heat not experienced in over 100 years, they say … but the grapes are magnificent: no sign of stress or thirst (yet). Unlike us. Here’s a bit of trivia for you. Canicule comes from the Latin Canicula, the […]
A glass of sunshine: Limoux’s new-look logo (above) The wettest March in recorded history, followed by what seemed to be the sunniest April, puts us firmly into Spring, as you will see from this little video. The vines are lapping it all up, moving rapidly from from bud-break to the formation of tiny little […]
This has been a momentous year, even before it has got going. But the blaze of brilliant sunsets splashed across our horizon every day this month surely can only mean a more beautiful tomorrow. Well, the good news is, our Pays d’Oc est arrivé! Yes, the chardonnay-chenin blanc is back on tap. We […]
Vine Lines, November 2014 Picture above: a fermenting barrel, one of the main actors in this month’s Shakespearean drama (“Bubble bubble toil and trouble”) Incredible that exactly a month ago we were sitting down to our harvest lunch, back-slapping and smugly congratulating each other on a very good harvest. Since then, we have […]
The countdown to Harvest 2014 is on! September is already on its final lap, but our harvest hasn’t even got past the starting block. True, we did a bit of moonlighting and quickly nipped in for a drop of zesty machine-harvested reserve for our country wine one night last week, but as for the […]