End of pruning and spring jobs

From early June to end of August the 30th, our team has been pruning our vines on the estate. 3 months and 40 Ha later, our whole vineyard is pruned in guyot double apart from few experimental pruning types.

The team is now starting spring jobs:

Men replace posts - in the case below, on the stony blocks we can see signs of the old river bed as it has created a difference of level of the ground. Posts need to be replaced to avoid having the fruit wire too high in the lowest levels of the ground. If the fruit wire is too high, the canopy isn't tall enough and this unbalances the vine to bring out more of the green flavours we want to avoid. Lowering the fruit wire will avoid this to happen.











Women train the new vines or young vines that needed to be replaced.












Young vines need some help to grow straight up, so we add a stake close to the vine that we tie to the wire, and so do we with the vine itself.

The vines are protected by a carton box at the bottom to avoid rabbits to eat the fragile roots and shoots.