Well, 315 tons and 50 days after our first grapes came in, we've finally finished Harvest 2006.  Three weeks ago, if you'd told us that we'd look back on the 2006 harvest with excitement, we'd have thought you were crazy. The first half of October was cool and cloudy, and rained a couple of times ... until the last moment.  At right, Robert Haas holds the last bunch of Harvest 2006: a Mourvedre bunch...

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Harvest 2006 is underway! We began picking this past Thursday (September 14) with Chardonnay grapes for our "Antithesis" Chardonnay. Viognier , traditionally the earliest-ripening Rhone varietal, followed on Friday the 15th . This week, we brought in our first lots of Roussanne , earmarked for our "Bergeron" wine, on September 19, and we expect to start harvesting Syrah , our earliest-ripening...

Wine Australia, the biennial exhibition of Australian wine and wine related products has come and gone and after four days of tasting over 400 wines, I’m taking a little break from drinking for a few weeks! Overall, I thought the event was excellent - although there is still some room ...

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Encore une journée magnifique sous un grand soleil. Le vent est passé au Sud et nous avons vendangé des Syrah et la plupart des blancs. Demain nous attaquerons certainement les Grenache à Beaucastel et Perrin & Fils. Technorati Tags: beaucastel , rhone , vin

We finished harvesting the Mourvèdre in Beaucastel on Friday. Yesterday and today we are harvesting the last grapes in Vinsobres and notably the parcels that compose our Vinsobres les Hauts de Julien. This evening the harvest will be finished (in the vineyards) but we will of course continue posting here ...