Month: October 2013
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Beaujolais soon to be canned!!
The innovative drinks company Winestar will soon be marketing Beaujolais in cans. Winestar has already commercialized canned wines from the Corbières region in south west France. As yet we don’t know which wine estate will be used, but the product should be on the market in early 2014…
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Harvest over, first assessment
As the last tractors are being called in and the pickers returning to their daily jobs, it’s time for a first assessment of the 2013 vintage. Just when the Cotes de Nuit district was praising Mother Nature for not sending hail storms their way, the promised sunny spells for early October didn’t materialize and instead,…
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It’s harvest time!
Yes, the starting gun has been heard and teams from many vineyards are starting to cut, pick and select the best grapes from their vines. The Chardonnays were the first to invade the vineyards last week as Meursault and Puligny Montrachet started to collect their golden nuggets. I was lucky to be passing the famous…
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