The Harvest 2026 has started extremely early with whites in Puligny-Montrachet, and next will presumably be Meursault and Chassagne, already starting this week. The harvest start is clearly the earliest we have ever seen since they started to do the statistics of harvest start date in Beaune in …
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Harvest 2026 – has started
The Harvest 2026 has started ... and did so before this weekend, i.e., August 6th or 7th, and with a harvest of Folatieres in Puligny-Montrachet on August 8th. Furthermore, there are rumors of the harvest of small plots of Pinot Noir in Côte de Nuits ... so in reality, the big harvest chaos has …
The 2026 hope and despair
The dry conditions and persistent burning sun are calling for a last-minute miracle of rain. For the vignerons, these are very enduring times... seeing the hope evaporating with the juice in the small grapes. Alexandrine Roy - one of my favorite vignerons - said this movingly well in her Facebook …
A lovely Daiquiri … the Moûtquiri
My local Italian restaurant "I Bravi Ragazzi" in Nuits-Saint-Georges, owned by Eva and Francesco, has a lovely Daiquiri variant with Moût as one of the sweetening elements ... and this works very, very well indeed. I am not a great straight Negroni drinker ... but this Daiquiri does have a more …
Harvest 2026 – less than two weeks to the start
The Harvest 2026 is very near the start ... There is a lot of doubt and frustration about fixing the harvest dates, as the vignerons are to get a hold of what to do with these small, thick-skinned grapes with a low juice content. Some have more or less thrown in the towel ... and harvest just …
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