Domaine Trapet, one of the true pioneers of biodynamic viticulture, is now taking a giant leap by completely changing its pruning system and canopy management in order to cope with global warming. While Domaine Leroy is mainly using higher trellising, Jean-Louis Trapet and his sons Pierre and …
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Hail Mary – and some hale advice
This is a merely a thought from an old wine reviewer: Sometimes bad weather luck strikes, and hail hits - or simply touches - a vineyard. At harvest, most wines can be salvaged by proper sorting to remove hailed berries. But this is a rigorous process that demands much more than lip service and …
Arnoux-Lachaux Viticulture – Procès 2
Charles Lachaux of Vosne-Romanée's Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux is amongst the most dynamic viticulturalists in Burgundy. The changes and improvements in his estate's vineyards are moving forward with incredible speed. 05/03/2021 I am therefore closely following the viticultural progress in one of the …
Wild 2019s: Jérémy Recchione
Jérémy Recchione's labels attract attention and focus - and so do the wines. They started out in 2017 as "regular" organic wines with little sulphur, but evolved further in 2018 and 2019 into wines made and bottled without sulphur. All that is to say that, if the 2017s from Jérémy Recchione are …
Domaine Duroché viticulture and vineyard news
I recently had the opportunity to visit Domaine Duroché in Gevrey-Chambertin to have a look at its viticulture experiments and general work with the vineyards. We started out in an experimental plot in the Cazetieres vineyard, where Pierre Duroché has a small parcel producing one cask of …
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