Harvest 2014 - Day 4

More pictures of the harvest, with the sun!

Being a Chardonnay grape picker

This second video puts you up a picker in sunny Chardonnay Champagne

The harvest ends today but with Macs ... Pictures of the previous days and the last day will be published in a few days.

Being a grape picker

You have never done ​​the harvest and you have always wanted to try. Here is a video that will give you insight to be a harvester of Pinot Meunier for a few minutes:

Harvest 2014 - Day 1, 2 and 3

The first 3 days of harvest in pictures. 

Day 1 - First grapes and the first shipments with the sun

Day 2 - Early hours in the fog

Day 3 - Sunrise 

but a lot of dew

Pinot Meunier from "15 ares plot" in Courcelles-Sapicourt

Part of the harvest before the morning snack

Head in leaves!

A hot day on the slopes!

Traffic jam to deliver the grapes at the end of a hard working day

To be continued...

Harvest 2014 - H-Few Hours

A final cut was given all week to aerate and facilitate cutting. The vines are "squared".

A toad in a path down the vine

Pinots Noirs are waiting for only one thing, being cut and reached the press to be transformed in a few months into Champagne!

Just as Pinot Meunier (below)

Preparing for the Harvest - Second Part

The 2014 harvest is now starting in a few hours with our team which is made ​​up of many new ones his year. 

Raincoats and wadders are ready (in case of morning dew or rain...), spruce are in the starting blocks...

... tables and chairs have been installed pending for the team...

...baskest were bored and are waiting for the arrivals of the pickers...

...See you a little every day for photos of harvest, the result of a year's work!

Harvest 2014 - Countdown

The harvest is approaching. Grapes continue their maturation. Here are the latest pictures taken last Sunday.

Pinot Noir at "Chapitres plot"

Some vines are heavy...

While others, well, are rather "light" ...

Chardonnay from "Jardin plot"

Some of them are entangled to form a super cluster

But some grapes are slightly rotten. Fortunately nothing alarming for harvest. These few grains won't go to the press.

Preparing the 2014 Harvest

The countdown begins. The 2014 harvest are at D-6. The boxes arrived, the tractor, the trailer and the chase are ready. Spruce are waiting for the pickers. A little housekeeping to adjust and we will be ready to start Monday, September 15th with the sun (hopefully!)

Harvest 2014 - Dates

Dates for the harvest 2014 has been published yesterday. The first grapes to be cut will be in Aube Departement and Cumières Monday, September 8th. For our village, it will be Monday, September 15th for Pinot Meunier and Wednesday, September 17th for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (unless some parcels need to be harvested before). 

Here are the latest pictures of Pinot Meunier