Excitement mounts. See Mark's blog from down at the Chai. They're not on hols there. New casks came in yesterday and new tanks tomorrow. A fork-lift instructor is here from Gloucester to train them so not too many cases end up in the Dordogne.
Our Annual Aussie has arrived and is Bonjouring everyone to death.
Grapes here are looking black and ripe. Actually they're not ripe. Month to go. But then this time last year they were still green. And we still made really great wine. So what's this year to be? If this weather holds I fear it'll be yet another Wine of the Century!
I need to get home to talk over all the news with the brains back at Theale.
In wine, basically the whole year is decided in just a few weeks Sept-Oct. You gotta get it right. And get the best stuff before anyone else. You wouldn't think something like wine required split-second decisions. But it does. At Vintage time. Right down the line.
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