After taking photos of the Marchais family and harvesting in Epeigné-les-Bois on Saturday we headed to Angé a little further east in the Cher Valley to see Vincent Roussely receive his first trailer load of Côt (Malbec). Vincent's Côt is in Saint-Georges-sur-Cher – around 10 kilometres to the west.
The first load of Côt arriving
Backing the tractor and trailer in through the
narrow entrance to the cellar
Impressively Vincent has time to talk to a group of visitors
at the same time as harvesting
Vincent with a small quantity of dry ice
– used to protect the juice in the vat
Vincent chucking the dry ice into the underground vat
The newly hand picked Côt
The fermenting vat
Grapes heading up thr conveyor belt to the destemmer
Grapes dropping into the destemmer
(above and below)
Côt juice falling into the vat
made cloudy by the dry ice
Vincent's Côt in his Saint-Georges-sur-Cher vineyard
(above and below)
Pickers (some from Bulgaria) in the Saint-Georges vineyard
(above and below)
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