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The 2022 Harvest Reports Are In!

35 New Harvest Reports from 2022!

How does The New Website Work?

This is very exciting stuff!

Desktop vs Mobile: We know it's 2020 and people use their phones a lot. So we've worked hard on ensuring the site functions well on mobile (especially compared to what it once was). Having said that, desktop is the recommended way of perusing the site. Glossary: At its core, this has always been a website written for wine professionals *attempting* to glean information on the wines we import (and hopefully see a picture of the vigneron's dog). Since the language can be so technical, we've added an <glossary term="glossary" title="1427">interactive glossary</glossary> to the text for those unfamiliar with the baffllingly complex world of wine terminology. Even if you're a seasoned pro, it will frankly teach you a thing or two. And if you'd rather read the content without the glossary, simply head to the main menu bar and turn it off.   Our Wines Section:  In the new "Our Wines" section, we've offered a variety of filter categories for you to explore and discover all the cuvées we import. These filters can be combined together to narrow down results. If you hit a wall, simply erase one of the filters or clear all filters.  Actual Information About the Wines: Speaking of the wines, the number one complaint we would get from customers was the lack of technical information on the wines themselves. It's not a coincidence that we spend the vast majority of our energy focusing on the people behind the wines and their dogs; it's what we dig about what we do. Having said that, 95% of the wines we import now have EXTREMELY detailed technical information, dare I say the most technical anywhere on the internet. Please enjoy now while they are up to date, knowing that half of these will probably be totally wrong by next vintage.  Search: If you know what producer or wine you are searching for, the search should quickly autofill what you need. Go ahead, give it a whirl. Hyperlinks: Everything on the website has a hyperlink now. This means you can easily share a specific producer page, article, wine or filter combination with anyone.  Copy/Paste: If you need to copy/paste anything, the glossary needs to be turned off for the text to paste correctly. Also, if you are going to straight up use our writing verbatim, PLEASE credit us when doing so. Seems obvious but we see it happen all the time.  A Shit-Ton of Written Content: The articles themselves can often be very long, and for this reason we developed a Propriety Pop Up System™ where you can easily scroll through various articles/wines and "pop out" to efficiently look at the rest of the content. We've tried our best to pack as many dog pictures as possible in there, but the digital ink has been spilled: the cumulation of decades' worth of writings from Joe, Denyse, Kevin and Jules is here for you to read. A huge part of the work with this new website was to find better ways to condense and extract essential information you need without getting lost in all that BORING text.  We still think you should check it out. Don't worry, there are plenty of pictures. And you might even find the writing interesting. Or funny. Or both.

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2022 Harvest Report from Elodie Balme

Here is my little <glossary term="Harvest" title="521">harvest</glossary> report for the 2022 <glossary term="Vintage" title="1109">vintage</glossary>. Even though it's always hard to know the results at this stage of things! I would describe the summer as: extremely dry! It will certainly have marked the year: extreme heat and a lack of water, no rain from Spring until August 15th! We did get 17mm that helped out on August 17th, though it could not save the vines suffering most.  We picked our first grapes on August 11th in an attempt to save the youngest vines under the most stress. Once those were done, we waited until August 27th for the real start of the <glossary term="Harvest" title="521">harvest</glossary>. For the <glossary term="Terroir" title="1026">terroirs</glossary> less affected by <glossary term="Drought" title="1167">drought</glossary> (the <glossary term="Coteau" title="345">coteaux</glossary> with clay <glossary term="Exposition" title="430">exposed</glossary> North), the <glossary term="Cluster/Bunch" title="1138">bunches</glossary> were small but plentiful. We were very happy with the results there.  Early September was marked by intense storms. This slowed down the <glossary term="Harvest" title="521">harvest</glossary> but also brought a bit more juice into the berries... It also resulted in the longest harvest in the <glossary term="Estate" title="427">estate</glossary>'s history, in total four long, hard weeks. In the end we had good quantity, with only a few <glossary term="Parcel" title="760">parcels</glossary> suffering extremely. This was honestly a surprise and a relief! Nature nonetheless remains conciliatory! The juices are full of fruit and nice material, high alcohol of course but well integrated.  We are rather satisfied with this <glossary term="Vintage" title="1109">vintage</glossary> and all its twists and turns! <img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//964/e3/96/e396089543be144e1904f0f66a15431b.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//964/97/af/97af53b189294613bf30df66ca236691.jpg" />