Montlouis and Vouvray: dry morning, wet and miserable afternoon

Domaine Huet: Noël Pinguet's rainwear sums up an increasingly damp and miserable afternoon

Anthony Hwang, owner of Domaine Huet, helps out during the vintage

Noël Pinguet impresses!

Frantz Saumon

Jacky Blot (right) with Fiona Beckett, the Guardian's new wine correspondent