It’s my Vineyard

The bottling took one long day, on our property but carried out by the company ‘2000 Embouteillage’, this allows us to put ‘Mis en bouteille au domane’ on our label.  We have always used this company who have an excellent reputation in this area.

In the morning the wine is fitered through degrees of fineness of silica, the last, and finest, like powder.

In the afternoon the wine is put into bottles and corked

then stacked against the wall in our cave where only a few months ago we had our 2005 Regnie.

I remember looking at the quantity of bottles thinking how will we ever sell this amount of wine? In fact we only have about 3000 bottles left from the 20 thousand bottled!

We are very pleased with the quality of 2006 and I am sure it will go as fast. The new label looks great and already the pile against the wall is reducing in size.

One of our sons and a friend arrived, count down to V day. The vendanges will start on sepetember 3rd and they are here to help us, we have a weekend of calm before the storm! Our grapes are looking good and their sugar content is going up each day. The north wind that is blowing is drying out moisture and concentrating the sugar. Getting it right so the grapes are ripe but not too ripe is tricky and requires experience, good judgement and just a little bit of luck!