The 2015 Harvest is now under way! The crew started picking on March 28th and is about 40% done. Max, our resident photographer extraordinaire, is now with them and will be taking a lot of pictures.
Good luck to all!
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Another beautiful smile to accompany the juice of our second harvest pick into its future home for the next nine months. This time Corentin is making sure that the process goes smoothly.
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Antony is busy putting the juice of our first pick (back 4 weeks ago) into barrels where it will age for the next nine months. Lucie (from Toronto) is carefully monitoring the process, but with such a wonderful smile, how can anything go wrong! Another 18 months before we can start offering the 2014 cuvée to our faithful followers....
Harvest officially finished early this week and our vineyard has been completely stripped of its fruit.
Kia Ora / Thank you / Merci / 감사합니다 / Danke to our faithful crew Antony, Edouard, Julien, Miran, Corentin, and Nathan and to our "backpackers" Alix, Christine, Damien, Guillaume D, Guillaume J, Hannes, Jamie, Jennifer, Julie, Malyon, Marlene, Olivier, Pierre, Robin, Sebastien, Sophie, Thomas, Tony and Yannick. A special thank you to our neighbor Andrew for helping as well.
See some of Max's harvest pictures here and check Christine's blog
See you all in 2015!
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Only a day and a half left and the vineyard will be stripped naked of its fruits. You can see the sense of excitement this provides to Julien! From left to right, Julien, Miran and Edouard.
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The crew picked 11 tons today in record time. For the math whizzes, this is the equivalent of 11,000 kgs x 62% juice extraction rate / 0.75 liters per bottle or 9,093 bottles of PN! No wonder why the team was proud at the end of the day. From left to right, Edouard, Miran, Julien and Corentin.
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