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Champagne Harvest 2018: Marie-Noelle Ledru and Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
Harvest started early in 2018, officially opening on August 20th, yet the official dates showed big differences, with some villages only opening early September. Derogations are possible and even if a few people began picking earlier, so far the harvest has … Continue reading
Champagne harvest – the bioenergetic cuvée Liberance en primeur at Franck Pascal
My last visit this harvest season was at Franck and Isabelle Pascalle in Baslieux-sous-Chatillon. I arrived at the same time as the last grapes for the day. Franck and Isabelle have been farming biodynamically since 2002 and for the last … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, bioenergy, Champagne, Champagne harvest 2015
Tagged bioenergy, champagne harvest 2015, Franck Pascal, Libérance
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Champagne harvest 2015 – a day in the vineyard and winery with the Lahaye family
On Wednesday I spent the day with the Lahaye family. After lunch Benoit first took me to the Argentière vineyard where we checked on the ripeness, before joining his pickers in the youngest part of the Jardin de la Grosse … Continue reading
Champagne Harvest 2015- beautiful biodynamic grapes at Bourgeois Diaz and Françoise Bedel
Yesterday I sPent the day in Croutes sur Marne, the last village of the Vallée de la Marne when driving to Paris. It is a rare village with 2 biodynamic producers – seeing there only are 25 certified … Continue reading
Champagne Harvest 2015 – picking Pinot Noir for Vouette and Sorbée
Yesterday afternoon Bertrand Gautherot’s team were picking Pinot Noir in the Vouette vineyard. I love Bertrand’s Vouette vineyard as you can really see the Kimmeridgean terroir, lots of limestone pebbles in the clay :-) Bertrand feels that this clay and … Continue reading
The Grand Cru worthy Terroir of the Aube
The Cote des Bar has always been a little stand alone in the Champagne region. The fact that the region is located on the other side of the plains, about a 150 km south of Epernay has probably something to … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Champagne, terroir
Tagged Aube, biodynamic, chalk, Champagne, Claude Kossura, clay, Echelle des Cru, Grand Cru, Kimmeridgean, limestone, minerality, organic, Portlandian
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Organic wine bashing – why I feel it is wasted energy in more ways than one
This morning I read yet another thread of organic and biodynamic growing bashing on Facebook, this time in the so called enlightened “The science of French wine” group. The discussion started by somebody posting a link to a study which … Continue reading
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Tagged biodynamic, organic, organic bashing, Sustainable
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Terroir Champagne: my book project through crowd funding
On October 20th I have launched a crowd funding campaign to try and raise €10,000 to self publish the first book on environmentally friendly Terroir Champagne. The tittle of the book says it all: Terroir Champagne: the Luxury of Sustainable, … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, organic, terroir
Tagged biodynamic, Cain Todd, Cephas, crowd funding, Ian Westcott, Indiegogo, Isabelle Legeron MW, Jura Wine Book, Kat Morse, Mick Rock, Onneca Guelbenzu, organic, Sustainable, terroir champagne, Terroir Champagne Book Project, the book
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Natural Wine by Isabelle Legeron
I very rarely publish a book review here, in fact I believe this is the first time ever that I want to share a book on this blog… The reason is very simple, Isabelle Legeron‘s Natural Wine book completely blew … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic, Natural Wine, organic, terroir
Tagged Isabelle Legeron, natural wine
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One Step Beyond – Franck Pascal’s Bio-energetic Champagne
At the beginning of June I spent my birthday learning all about bio-energetic Champagne at Franck Pascal‘s. Franck and Isabelle had invited me together with the staff of La Truffiere, a Michelin starred Parisian restaurant, to share their 20 year … Continue reading