Pompignan Wine · 29 September 2003
Photographs of this year’s harvest.
This marks a first for my friend Noël, at least as proprietor of his own cave (previous posts on the matter here and here), construction of which was just finishing as the grapes rolled in. The new winery still has no name, though that has more to do with the pleasures of navigating French bureaucracy than anything else.
Everyone seems to agree this was a good season, grape-juice-wise: very little disease in the vines hereabouts, and this year’s, um, diverse weather may have caused untold mayhem, but it was conducive to good plonk.
Most notable, of course, is that I got to ride the machine.
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