Great crates of grapes!
This is the third in a series of short videos following a day of the 2011 Champagne harvest for Champagne […]
Harvest 2011
Harvest 2011
Welcome to the My Man In Champagne Harvest 2011 blog! We’ll be uploading new posts as often as we can over the next few weeks during the Champagne Harvest of 2011.
This is an exceptionally early harvest due to hot early start to the vintage so it will be exciting to see how things pan out and what the growers and producers make of the quality of the grapes. Look out here for as-it-happens photography, information and the odd video. Thanks for watching!
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Chardonnay harvest – a cut from the vine
This is the second in a short series of videos in which My Man In Champagne follows the Champagne House
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STOP PRESS – literally
A bit of a conundrum in the making in some areas of Champagne Chatting to a few champagne producers I’m
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Champagne Henriet-Bazin – interview with Marie-Noëlle in the vines
An exclusive first video in a series of six covering the 2011 Champagne harvest for the Champagne House Henriet-Bazin. All
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Windy Pickings
On August 27th, 2011, we view the ongoing Champagne harvest from a very windy spot, over the valley of Verzenay
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David and Goliath
Small champagne houses only have a handful of hectares to harvest, usually less than 10, so most of thet work is done by
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Débardeurs
Here we see the 'Débardeurs' They are the people who man-handle ( or woman-handle in this case) the boxes onto
Getting Down to the Real Work
We're several days into the harvest now and the warm sunny weather of the first couple of days has turned
First Pickers in The 2011 Champagne Harvest
The harvest was scheduled to start on 20th August and after all the anticipation I expected the pickers to be
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Effeuilleuse
In the last video we saw how a small producer – Mrs. Taste – trims excess foliage from the vines