It’s Hard to Talk About the News Without Mentioning the COVID-19 Pandemic and the measures taken by the government to limit its spread. For us, the “administrative” work is carried out from home, but vineyard work cannot be done remotely. However, everything is in place to ensure that safety protocols […]
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It’s harvest time at the Musset and Chêne-Vieux wineyards! Mechanical harvesting allows us to pick each vineyard at the optimal time, based on the oenological maturity of the grapes, their health status (to prevent rot from humidity), and the weather. For example, last week in Puisseguin, rain risked diluting the must. Oenological maturity takes into account and optimizes all stages of ripeness according to the type of wine we aim to produce.
During the active growing season, work in the vineyard is in full swing! Soil maintenance, in particular, ensures optimal hydration and nutrition for the vine. Among the maintenance tasks, vine weeding has several objectives: it limits competition between weeds and the vine for resources and protects the vine from diseases […]
You surely enjoyed the spring-like warmth that settled in France during February… For the vine, these weather fluctuations are far from good news! Indeed, the rise in temperatures causes the vine to start its activity again, with sap rising. The prematurely sprouted buds, due to excessively mild temperatures too early, […]
Dear wine enthusiasts, What’s happening at Châteaux Chêne-Vieux and Musset? From the moment the leaves have fallen, and before the arrival of spring, work in the vineyards focuses on pruning. The vine is a climbing plant and would grow indefinitely if it were not pruned. Carried out during the vegetative […]
As the summer holidays are in full swing, it’s time for us to do our “summer homework.” Among the administrative declarations we regularly need to make, we report our stock to customs every month so they can monitor the excise duties on every bottle of wine sold. Excise duty is […]