The first "pre" harvests are reported ... Le Horees in Beaune already Friday 6th ... a Petit Début of the Vendange 2024 ... and most likely others are already doing small samplings for Pied de Cuve ... During the harvest I will post almost daily, with harvest "action" and impressions. It …
2024 … harvest next week +
The harvest 2024 will start during the next few days ... i.e. around September 10th. In Côte de Nuits it will most likely be focused on a start September 16th. Major estates like Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair and Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüe will start in this week. While harvest timing is …
Terroir Insight: Domaine Leroy Corton-Charlemagne
Beyond elusive ... not even in my dreams. The red grands crus of Domaine Leroy and Domaine d'Auvenay are both very rare and very costly, but the whites are even further away from the snout of the Winehog. Both the Chevalier-Montrachet and the Batard-Montrachet are in what I would call a league of …
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New updates of Vineyard articles
The Winehog began in 2011 and this means that some of the articles are getting a bit old and rusty. The vineyards are still more or less the same, but there are in some cases changes in ownership and the people working at the estates. I have therefore decided to do a fall update of these …
10 full years with Diam
While the tests of Diam started at the beginning of the 2000s, the expansive use started in 2013 with Comte Lafon, in 2014 with Domaine Leflaive and Olivier Lamy in 2015 ... 10 years ago … and things seem to work very well indeed from a premox perspective. 20 years since the start in …