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champagne vines on a slope |
A leaf
with spray deposit and a small grape bunch |
Older
champagne vines |
On chalky
soil |
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Chateau
Genot-Boulanger
Meursault
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le Directeur of Chateau Genot-Boulanger (Charles H Genot) in Meursaul |
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barrel with a transparent side, showing how the wine clears: the
sediment is slowly falling to the bottom |
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| The
barrel is stamped with the cooper's name (tonnelier), the details of
production (e.g. 'chauffe légère'=light toast, tronçais oak) and in this
case the provenance of the wine |
White
wine fermenting in the barrel |
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Tasting in the cellar |
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( chauffe legere ,
troncais ) |
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Lucien
Muzard
Santenay
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| When
the wine ferments in the barrels in the cellar carbon dioxide is
released. This is odourless and colourless but it can kill you from
suffocation. To avoid this there is an extraction fan that is turned on
when there is wine fermenting |
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le Directeur of Charles H Genot |
Some
old barrel faucets in the cellars of xxx |
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Red
wine fermenting in the barrel |
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Rossignol-Trapet
Gevrey-Chambertin
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There's quite a lot of mould in some of the cellars |
The
cellar keys |
Mme
Muzard |
Lucine
Muzard & Fils, viticulteur |
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Rossignol
explaing the terroirs of bourgogne |
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Domaine de Montmain
Hautes Cotes de Nuits
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| And
Britt Karlsson interpreting |
Another barrel with 'chauffe moyenne plus' (medium + toast) and tronçais
oak |
Slopes
at the Hautes Cotes de Nuits. The vines here are often trained
high (taille haute) as opposed to the Cote de Nuits itself where they
are normally trained low |
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Hudelot
of Domain Montmain has created a substantial domaine over the years |
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this case the vines are trained on four wires: two at the top and the
two others at different levels lower down |
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Domaine des Terres Dorées
Beaujolais ( terres dorees )
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| A very
young grape bunch |
Another version of high trained vines |
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Jean-Paul Brun of Domaine des Terres Dorées in Beaujolais |
Beaujolais vines. Probably Gamay, but could also be Chardonnay since JP
Brun makes some excellent white beaujolais |
He
does not invest in outside publicity. You have to look hard to find the
sign indicating where to find him |
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| The
inside of a fermentation tank: coverer with crystals |
The
"new" cuverie |
And
the old |
This
is temperature control devices used during fermentation. You put them in
the fermentation vats and run cold (or warm) water through them |
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Domaine des Chaffangeons
Fleurie
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Cote
de Nuits
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One of
the typical vineyard tractors. (It would, no doubt, not pass the "elk
test") |
M le
propriétaire |
Mme la
propriétaire |
Britt
Karlsson in Bourgogne |
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| In
Cote de Beaune: a vineyard worker far away. All the wires used for
training the vines on give some vineyards a curiously shiny, metallic
look |
Vineyards in Cote de Beaune |
This
is a little plastic device used for 'confusion sexuelle' (sexual
confusion). It contains a substance the confuses some of the insects so
that they reproduce less and therefore cause less problems in the
vineyard |
An old
vine with new shoots that will in time be trained on the horizontal
wires |
La
Romanée Conti ( la romanee conti ) |
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| Newly
planted vines, probably planted last year. It will take another couple
of years before they can be used for wine production |
A
vineyard patch that will soon be replanted |
The
Clos de Vougeot, but not the usual perspective. Here, from the back |
Some
growers remove all grass and other growth between the vines (considering
it to be better). Other growers keep it (equally considering that to be
better). Here you can see both philosophies side by side |
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| Britt
Karlsson |
A
brand new vine, protected from the hostile outside world |
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