3rd day of harvest.

The dat start with the harvest of the Chardonnay of the plots that surround our house, then the harvest keep going in the terroir of Villers-Marmery.

Then, is the middle of the afternoon, rain start to fall, and waste our pleasure.

2nd day of Harvest.

The souvenir of a very nice sunrise on the vineyard of Villers-Marmery. It's 7:30 and 5°C but, the view is so beautiful !

For the rest of the day, Chardionnay are very nice despite som places with Mildew and oidium. The grappes are cutted and left on the soil.

1st day of Harvest.

At Champagne Henriet Bazin, harvest just started this morning. The weather is nice, but the wind is blowing from the north, and the temperatures are decreasing. It was only 7°C at 7h00 am. A cold biggining.

Despite the hard season in term of climatic conditions, the quality of the grapes is perfect. I'm only talking about the grapes that we collect, not the ones affected by mildiew or oidium. But the sound grappes are very nice, pêrfectly mature, without rotten fruits. The buckets are very nice.

But, as we were prepared to, the quantity are low compared to the last years.

Our fisrt presing machine has been loded at noon.

Mantis in the vines.

 Nature often offer nice surprises. It happens the day before yesterday when we came back home. passing along the vines, i saw this very nice praying mantis jumping on a leaf of Chardonnay...you can imagine that run to catch my camera and shot the beauty.

Give me a sign !

Climbing on a grape of Chardonnay. As you can se, it will need a few days more to be mature.

Harvest within 10 days.

The Harvest  will stard within 10 days at Champagne Henriet Bazin.

Our villages have created a network of control of maturity to provide accuraute dates of maturation for the harvest start.

The last samples and analysus were made last thursday an,d the results are :

Chardonnay from Villers Marmery will be picked-up from the 18th of September

Pinot Noirs from verzy and Verzenay will be receive their first shot of cisors on the 19th of September.

We are ready !

See you soon !

Ripening...again.

We spent 2 weeks on holiday, but vines kept working. Now, all the grain are blacks for the Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier and are light green for the Chardonnay.

As you can see on this comparative picture, grappes are now heavier because their haverage weight is increasing as the level of suggar is rising.

Harvest will come soon...