Coulure...

Remember how I talked about the risk of coulure (or flower shock, or "flower abortion") ?  Well, that's exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago when the wind blew hard for a week straight and the temperatures dropped overnight from in the 80s to the 50s.  Grenache, as I said is quite prone to losing it's flowers and our grenache took a pretty hard hit. See all those little black dots? They used to be flowers, or potential grapes. (click on the picture to see it upclose.) So that means we'll have a small harvest again this year, but in the end, that's not such a bad thing. If it's anything like last year, we'll have small grapes, with lots of concentration and color.  It's been really hot here lately and we haven't had much rain at all.  We're headed for another drought season. We're keeping our fingers crossed for some rain, though I don't really expect any...

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[Terry Hughes]

What with global warming, have you been looking for land in Scotland?

"Ar ar, humor," as Mork used to say.