Prosecco - 2013

Moses at the cellar door Faverolles-sur-Cher , Touraine (Loire) I visited recently Pascal Potaire and Moses Gadouche at their cellar at Les Capriades , everything was quiet in the facility, this is winter, a season where you just let the wines quietly make their way through the following spring. Pascal told me that the sparkling wines had a swift fermentation last autumn, this was all very smooth and easy this year. There was nothing to see for these wines, they were all bottled ...

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The team at work Thésée , Touraine (Loire) The temperature was pretty low when I came to see Anouk and Paul in their vineyard, with early mornings at minus 3 C (26,6 F) and highs at around + 3 C (37,4 F). Yes, pruning time is back and Touraine is known to be rather cold at this season, the humidity making it feel worse. Pruning is so important for the future fruit bearing but thats where you realize that if a vine has to suffer to make good wine ( Jean-Michel Deiss...

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Philippe Pacalet with Monica 7th arrondissement, Paris This year is like no other also for wine events, tastings and other professional gatherings : be it in the spring or at autumn (the most intense seasons for these wine events) I had like usual received tons on invitations for wine-centered activities and every each of them (or almost) were backtracked, sometimes postponed at a later date and at the end, plain cancelled. I usually go only to a few of these events depending of my...

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Fran�ois Miglio in the vineyard Gonfaron , Var (Provence) October-early november is certainly a very nice month to be in Provence, there are fewer tourists there at this time although the side roads are still busy with locals who often live in a village and commute to work in developped areas. We were in the middle of our couple of weeks there when the 2nd lockdown order was announced. I had two other visits planned in the area and could barely make this one by advancing the date ...

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Soft power Cher valley, Touraine (Loire) I also went three times at Les Maisons Br�lées where Paul Gillet and wife Corinne were in the middle of their harvest season, or rather toward the end actually as much of it was already behind us. I love riding to their wine farm, its a dead-end road in the hills above Pouillé , and the Gillet family must be so quiet there around the year. I shot this short video the 2nd time I went there, They were picking the parcel below the far...

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Estelle and Fran�ois Saint-Leger Monthou-sur-Cher , Touraine (Loire) I had dropped unannounced a couple of times at the cellar of Estelle and Fran�ois Saint-Leger along the road between Thésée and Monthou-sur-Cher but no one was there, they were either busy picking or it was a day with no picking planned, so I texted them and could come when theyd were there. I had barely parked the motorbike that they were arriving with Estelles father and a trailer pulled by his ...

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Aunis & Gamay flowing Mareuil-sur-Cher , Cher valley (Loire) Here are a few images and videos shot during the harvest and first vinification work while visiting a few vignerons in the Loire, more precisely in the Cher valley. Id not bother to call as I knew everyone was busy, Id just drop by on my motorbike and see what was happening (the weather was so nice, it helped a lot). I took a few minutes to ask the winemakers how this vintage had been showing until then, and youll see that on t...

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