Growing Conditions

After a month of January and February quite rainy and mild, the vintage 2014 presented itself as soon as the winter exit as an early vintage. A fresh and dry march has promoted a regular burst, followed by a beautiful sprout in April with an 8-day advance on an average year. The climate remained propitious in May, with a rapid and homogeneous bloom from the last days of May to the first days of June with a harvest forecast in the upper average. We escaped on our vineyards to devastating thunderstorms that ruined the hopes of many winegrowers in July. The summer of 2014 was unstable, with alternating beautiful days and rainy sequences. August was sullen and the Veraison a little spread out. Morale was at half-mast in mid-August. A drastic selection in our plots of young Merlot and old Cabernet Franc was engaged. This effort was valued by the month of September. Hot, windy, dry which has almost unexpectedly enhanced our grapes by peelinging their heterogeneity during the final phase of maturation. As much as the winegrower was undone throughout 2014, as the winemaker was happy with the grapes ripened in the sun of the "Indian Summer" Bordeaux.