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Thursday 1 September 2011

2011 vintage: the harvest that makes Le Pin look like Gallo or Blossom Hill!

Our 2011 harvest in its entirety

It is with great pride and pleasure that we present here our entire 2011 harvest from our vines@Epeigné-les-Bois. Picked with due ceremony on Tuesday 30th August – our earliest vintage on record. Such a bijou production (of eating grapes) makes the volume produced by Château le Pin appear industrial... 

Déjà mangé!
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6 comments:

  1. Chris Kissack1 September 2011 at 19:17

    Congratulations Jim.

    Some of the Bordeaux chateaux you have been 'featuring' recently have long-standing habits of drafting in Catalan villagers, or Dutch students, to pick the grapes. Do you also have an extensive team out in the vineyard?

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  2. Jim's Loire2 September 2011 at 00:17

    Chris. Very perceptive. We have a large team of many nationalities which enables us to harvest very quick allowing us to wait for the optimum 15 seconds. No need to make compromises.

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  3. Luc Charlier2 September 2011 at 07:58

    Where do you get your carbo-ice from ? I’m looking for a good provider.
    And a technical question: do you resort to pre-deglutory chewing or do you swallow straight away?

    The grapes, I mean ...

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  4. Jim's Loire2 September 2011 at 08:39

    Luc. I'll get our technical director to get back to you.

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  5. Susan3 September 2011 at 21:09

    Crikey! Next year you will be having to get a team of Wwoofers in to deal with the bounty!

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  6. Jim's Loire3 September 2011 at 21:20

    Susan. How true! We are already starting the selection process to ensure that we will have the best pickers possible for the 2012 vintage. Selection for the Grand Vin will be ruthless!

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