Harvest ended on September 24th after two full weeks at the Domaine Filliatreau.

The quality is excellent, good sugar levels and balanced acidity  but we did have a dry summer so not a lot of juice. As a comparison, the average is 35hl/ha instead of 57hl/ha in 2020 vintage. 

The berries are medium sized but pure. We should have a very nice vintage. Here are some photos.

Our 2025 harvest was very good, both in Marsala and Pantelleria.

The weather conditions in 2025 were perfect, with a good amount of rain at the right times and the right amount of heat needed for the Grillo and Zibibbo grapes.

Everything went well during the harvest; the grapes were healthy and of excellent quality.

I'm sending a photo of the Zibibbo grapes from Pantelleria drying in the sun for the production of our Bukkuram. A truly exceptional vintage, dedicated to our beloved Sebio.

Early, fast, intense and challenging. These are the words that come to mind when we reflect on the 2025 harvest. We started picking grapes in the second week of September and finished on 15th of October. Overall, we are very happy with the results, which will include the GG’s and a bit of noble sweet Auslese.

The vintage began with a warm and dry spring, with only a few vineyards affected by late frost. The weather was good during flowering. Sufficient rainfall in the summer provided ideal conditions for our Riesling grapes. Some rainy days and warm temperatures during the first week of September forced us to start picking earlier than expected. Thanks to our diligent team, we managed to bring the grapes into the cellar right on time. 

Here are some pictures.

In our case, 2025 was a calm but very early vintage: not too much rain and just when it was needed, with the exception of August were it really came down a bit too hard. 

This forced us to harvest earlier than originally planned on the reds to avoid any rot. Those were picked on August 27th and 28th. Their maturity is an ideal 12% potential complimented by nice acidity. At 45hl/h, it was also a good yield.

The whites were picked on September 9th with a potential of 13% and a disappointing 20hl/h. 

2025 has been incredibly hot from the start, with a lot of rain in May and June, forcing us to increase sulphur and copper treatments for fighting against fungal illness..

Luckily the weather got better from mid-July onwards but still had us picking on August 18th, a truly early start date and incredible by our standards. But in the end we are happy with the results. The fences we'd put up resisted the boars' numerous attacks, meaning we finally have great quality AND quantity. 

The spontaneous fermentations went very well and we are very happy with what will become the 2025 vintage. 

2025 will be remembered at La Distesa as one of the best in recent years. After a “now-normal” hot winter, we had a rainy spring and a pretty normal summer: finally a year without extreme events. Harvest began in the third week of August and ended in the last week of September. The team enjoyed the beautiful weather we had all through the harvest and the hard work was repaid by perfect ripeness, nice aromatic quality and also a very good quantity of both white and red grapes. 

Yoga classes in the early morning gave us the right concentration to solve all the problems given by so many different varieties and vineyards we have to manage. With our hearts full of sadness and anger for what is happening in the world, the wines that just finished fermentation give us the strength to face the next hard months and years. These will be wines full of energy, with a great aging potential, and we hope that will become true classics from our region! 

Harvest was good and short. Very short.

Fruit was impecable, healthy and ripe. No signs of mildew of whatsoever. We harvested everything in the first two weeks of September and Caracavelos was picked on the 3rd of October.

Winter is now arriving and wines are stalling and looking great.

For Domaine Mosse, 2025 was a vintage that started out great. For example: since we installed our anti-frost tower we haven't seen frost in Anjou in years... almost like nature is laughing at our investments. 

Spring was rather nice with little illness in the vines but little to show as far as bunches. So pretty early on, we know 2025 was not going to be a massive crop.

When we got back from our vacations on August 17th, we went to test the maturity of the grapes and were VERY surprised that certain parcels already showed a potential of 11.5%. Our team was supposed to assemble on September 1st. This forced us to put together a team of friends and seasonal working to start picking on August 21st, a record for earliest harvest in the estate's history.

The grapes were in great shape: no sorting, no throwing anything away. Still, there wasn't a tremendous amount to harvest so we ended pretty quickly, on September 10th. The team was young, motivated and super cool.

Following 2023 and 2024, vintages that were vivacious and pretty low in alcohol, 2025 is back to being riper and more generous. The fermentations were pretty slow so we kept a close eye on everything. As far as the wines' profile, it reminds me of 2019 and I anticipate Chenins with great again potential. 

In other estate news, thanks to our new, spacious winery, we've begun doing longer elevages on our nicer cuvées like Bonnes Blanches, Arena and Cabernet Franc. We are very happy to finally be able to age the wines the way they should be: in 400L barrels, concrete eggs, foudres... We also organized a nice "portes ouvertes" tasting in June, it was a lot of fun and we look forward to doing it again. 

2025 was a "classic" year for us, with freshness and rain in the Spring and heat in the summer. The harvest itself was beautiful and the vinifications harmonious. In these early stages before elevage, we find ourselves anticipating a lighter, fruity and typically "Beaujolais" wine we love from vintages not marked by extreme heat. 

2025 was also marked by the birth of our second little girl and us sharing our harvest through three generations. 

We had a really challenging Spring marked by numerous rains and cold weather. We had to be very vigilant in order to preserve any semblance of a crop. In the end we started picking on September 15th in Clessé. After a couple days of rain interrupted us, we continued and wrapped up on the 25th.

2025 was not as late-ripening as we are used to. The weather was a bit capricious and very hot in August, followed by episodes of rain then back to high heat. This led to botrytis. So quantities weren't great but the quality is there with very concentrated grapes. I anticipate it will produce a very good wine.