Friday June 1 Last week we saw the very first sign of blooming. Not the roses, not the daisies and other wild flowers, not the fruit trees … but the vines, for they bloom too. it always starts with the chardonnay, our early bloomer, and ends with the late blooming mauzac, and it’s a critical […]
Tuesday May 1 Here’s a nice little post-humous decoration for our chardonnay, Odyssée 2106 from Mâcon, the heartland of the chardonnay grape. Trouble is, it’s sold out. But the good news is : the next vintage will be bottled at the end of this month. |Something we are all looking forward to. And which goes […]
April 1, 2018 Last week’s planting was exhausting enough for the helpers who planted the chardonnay and chenin blanc vines, and then had to go around again putting perfumed rings of ribbons around the vines. Why on earth would we do that? To guarantee the aromatic compounds in the wines, of course. Obviously! Click on the […]
The coldest day in 50 years, some one said. March declared itself with a bitterly cold blast of the Best from East all over Europe, and even here, we had a few snowflakes and sub-zero temperatures. Then by Day-2 all was forgiven: a touch of spring in the air again, and the mountains smiling down at us […]
This month Limoux celebrates its 80th anniversary as an official wine appellation. It was the first wine-growing region in the Languedoc to be given this status. Thursday 8 February 2018 Lots of shaking of heads and “c’est pas normal” mutterings last month, as we walked around in T-shirts wondering where Winter had gone. And […]