When all I have is pictures of the vines going to sleep I have to find something else to spend my time on.

Like this Crichët Pajé Barbaresco 2001 from Luca Roagna.

This is a wine that give people a reason to dedicate theire lifes to Wine...

Had it with good company in booth people and food as a late B-day dinner.



 

Later on we had another fantastic Piedemont producer, Bruno Giacosa and his Barbera d'Alba from 2010. This was like a premier dessert, it had such a extreme smell of rubarb pie!! Sweet and acidic rubarb with butter dough, really nice...

 

 

 

 

Autumn is here.

The vine's have shown som real strenght since the end of may and we hope they can take that with them during the winter.

Next up will be to cut them and cover them up for protection.



I'm about to show the latest pictures taken from our vinyard in early to mid september. As this started as aen extreme project with a small amount of knowledge about the abillity for the vine to survive, but a great amount of passion for the concept we are truly amazed of what's happend. Talking to other people in Sweden having reel problems with the climat, we have been blessed, so far.

 

 

 

To see them develop into yhis in three and a'half monts is a fantastic feeling. Yes it's a long way to go before we can start talking about harvest, but to see them getting there strength like this in our climat gives alot of motivation and hope for them to surive for next year. Even though I know that spring frost will be more dangerous then a stabil cold winter, the winters we had the last couple of years is making me a bit nervous.

 

 

Next year my focus will be around the vines in planting flowers and trees, so taht we can build up a stabil enviorment that atracts the right sort of animals, insects and life to our vinyard.

 

Last but not least, want to thank Lennart for taking some beautiful pictures with one special picture.

 

 

 

 

When we came back from our trip the work at the Domaine continued. On the agenda; to protect the vines and deal with the problem of weeds. By placing a cloth/canvas between the vines, taking care of the weeds, all the nutrition is directed towards the vine. Even though a stressed vine might give you the best quality of grapes, at this stage and our climate it's all about survival.

 

The intentions of the stones are for holding the canvas in place, but also to retain the heat from the sun. But for that we need more stones. 

 

The Future of the Domaine.

 

 These pictures were taken at the end of July 2012. This was really heavy work, been raining for a couple of days, propper rain! Probably the most unsexy "mudwrestling" ever... At this time there were three rows finished with canvas, seven to go.

 

As the vines grow, witch they do and fast they need to be trained and pruned.

Have to say thatdad is very proud of getting this device!

 

 

And as I said before, we need to secure our vines from as many threats as possible like rabbits, boars etc.

 

 

 Beacause we are proud owners of 200 vines and we'll try our hardest to keep them.

 

 

And to finish this I have to show what I think is a perfect picture. Last day of work in july and the last picture I took before going back to Trondheim. It was a cloudy day, alot of rain had fallen but then a stream of light came through and the only place that got some sun were?....

...exactly!

 

I don't mind standing in the shadow at this point.

 

 

 

 



On our last day in Bourgogne we had a meeting at Bouchard Père & Fils. A big thanks to Victor Pepin that set up the meeting and Morgan Delacloche that took care of us.

We had the regular tour around the Château and then a private tasting in Mr. Henriot's cellar (Henriot, Champagne producer that bought Bouchard in 1995). A total of ten wines, a personal favorite Volnay 1ér Cru" Cailleretes Ancienne Cuvée Carnot" 2010. I just have a thing for european wines 2010 vintage, they have alot of acidity and i just love that. The Volnay had a high acidity with a clean, smooth, elegant highly concentrated red fruit, with a refreshing spicey touch, valued at 75 euro.

From Bouchard's cellar, collection of theire own wines, It's the biggest collection of old wines in the world.

Then we visited Domaine Jobard-Morey in Meursault.

A really good end to our short Bourgogne trip. We probably spent 2,5 hours here, mr. Remy Ehret-Jobard had so much to say and we had no proplem listening. A true terroir producer! The two single pictures above shows what I brought back home from this visit. If I could, it would had been more.

Next day we finished our winetrip by visiting Vincent Paris in Cornas in Northern Rhône. Really good wines with alot of fruit concentration, no new oak. Understand why Mostue started a collaboration and invested in plots here.

After visiting all the famous sites in Côte de Nuits we headed sout and a visit at the world famous "Le Montrachet", I wounder how this day could be any better...

...well, by beating a former co-driver of the swedish "rally circus" and a hardcore F1 fan in Go-Kart, there was pretty much no point to do anything else that day...

Except celebrate, in style...

This was my suggestion of celebraiting, but I was a couple houndred thousand short! To actually see this in a BOOKSTORE!! 

The "missing" bottle, DRC "la Romanée Conti" 2006 were next door, going for 13900 euro a bottle...

Instead we went to Meusault, found a nice hotel and had a fantastic night over a 5 course dinner, wine, beer and a couple of rounds of chess.

Our journey continued on the second day with som "old school" sightseeing. When in Burgundy, there is just so much to see. First of -Chambertin "Clos de Beze" world's oldest "clos" from 628 a.d. Beautiful landscape and a beautiful day. After some pictures and observing how they work with there machines we continued on to...

...Clos de Vougeot and the "Château du Clos de Vougeot".

Clos de Vougeot was originally run by the monks of Cîteaux, planting and building up the vineyard 12th and early14th century. In 1336 the 50ha plot and stone wall was complete. The current building was complete in 1551 and became Ch. du Clos de Vougeot. The Cistercians ran Clos de Vougeot until the french revolution in 1789. Since then it has been in private hands and sold a couple of times. And beacause of the inheritance law, it now have over 80 different owners.

The sightseeing of Côtes de Nuits ended with a visit at the Romanée Conti, the monopolé of Domaine Romanée Conti (DRC) We had the pleasure of seeing the horse working in the field.