the delicat aroma of flowers

Nearly finished
while the  autumn colors transform our landscape  into beautiful pictures, valley of the river Orb we go on working on the wines in our cellar. We have chosen a clear day last week, to rack our barrels with the 2008 vintage. It will now have one more cold rest in the cellar, before being bottled. Both wines (a Pinot one and ou Mourvedre) were already full-bodied and promising. You have come across them in summer

every day a little bit more
As I told you in my last post, it’s not yet wine – but while the natural yeasts are going ahead in transforming grape sugar into alcohol, it’s getting more wine-like every day.  The saccharometer is indicating less sugar left to transform every day – the cap of stems and grape skins comes up more and more easily, pushed by the gas formed during the transformation, and my work of “pigeage” becomes easier, as it gets softer in the process…

after the harvest: cellar work
Well, keeping your fingers crossed didn’t really help – as we didn’t have any rain since my last post, all our co-habitants around our vineyard doubled up in love for our grapes and braved the fences – badgers and wild boars were joined by roe deer, who couldn’t find any fresh grass – and they all enjoyed our juicy, sweet grapes… No new photos of the massacre, just so much: we will have not enough grapes, to elaborate our three distinct wines in 2009 – there will be a “p