After spending our summer watching the vines extremely closely, we didn’t just give in and harvest early. We decided to take risks and wait for real excellence, harmony and balance in the fruit. September was the finest summer month, so we cashed in on our wager: we saw this as soon as we picked the first rows. The skins were thick, the pip tannins were ripe and the grapes themselves were full of taste and freshness!

The harvest starts today with the young Merlot grapes and those growing on the plots that ripen the earliest. At the same time, we continue to monitor ripening on all the other plots to progressively set the optimal harvest dates for each. Let’s hope now that we will enjoy a long Indian summer, which will enable us to harvest “à la carte”.