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The branches ('sarments') have been cut down |
Only a few branches are left for next years
growth |
Verzenay is well know for its wind mill
(le moulin de Verzenay) that was built by one of the champagne houses |
Here you can see that the "pre-taille" has
been done (all the long branches have been cut) but the last, time
consuming, work remains. This is pruned with "cordon de Royat". |
Some grapes have been left hanging on the
vines. A less diligent picker perhaps? |
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Pinot Noir no doubt |
One of the marking stones indicating that
this vineyard belongs to Veuve Clicquot |
And a big pile of cut down "sarments" to
collect (will make a very nice entrecote aux sarments if used on the
grill) |
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A Henriot vineyard |
Not much pruning done here yet |
An illustration of how the pruning (taille) is done.
This is again 'cordon de Royat' that is used for Pinot Noir. Cordon
means that there is a 'trunk' (vertical) and one branch (horizontal)
that is kept from year to year. (In Guyot you do not keep any horizontal
branches at all.) |
Here the winter pruning is finished and
almost no branches are left on the vine |
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Another good example of how the Pinot Noir vine is
trained in Champagne: one branch along the wire and another straight up
from the foot (I am not quite sure why they keep this last one) |
Some extraordinary old vines. They extend
over 5-10 meters. Maybe this is done so as not to have to plant new
vines in between the old ones? |
It almost looks like wind torn pines in
Bretagne |
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Smoke from a fire to burn the cut down
branches |
Another good look at how the vine can be
trained. However, this is a rather unusual 'taille'. Could have been
done by someone who is not very experienced since it is neither really
'cordon de Royat' nor 'Chablis' |
One of the Verzenay growers, Thierry
Perrion, decorating for
Christmas |
You wouldn't think it is, but this is a
portable distillery: some 'vignerons' (called 'bouilleur de cru') still have the right to
distil
their own 'marc' and do so in this type of portable distilleries. This
is a dying tradition since the French government has stopped these
rights from passing down to the next generation of grower |
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