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Friday 8 September 2017

Loire 2017: very meagre harvest in parts of Muscadet

Christelle Guibert and Vincent Caillé pruning in the 
Terre de Gneiss parcel in early February 2017


Today I heard about the 2017 harvest from Christelle Guibert, one of the partners in Terre de Gneiss that comes from a small vineyard in the commune of Monnières. 

In 2016 the harvest from this parcel was tiny – hit by frost and then badly affected by the worst outbreak of mildew in the Loire in many people's living memory. 

Unfortunately the late April frost struck here again this year (2017) seriously affecting yields. The Terre de Gneiss parcel was harvested on Tuesday (5th September) yielding only a miserable 7 hectares per hectare. This means that there are not enough grapes to go into their egg fermentation vat this year. 

I will be in the Pays Nantais on Monday for a couple of days, so will report further on how the 2017 vintage is going. 


Vincent Caillé's reaction 
to the 2017 April frosts    

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