The harvest of the white grapes

The whites’ harvest is going perfectly. All the requirements to make a great white wine have come together : a dry summer, not too hot with cool nights. The grapes are in an excellent, healthy condition and looking really good. The balance reached is exactly what we are looking for: degrees of alcohol between 13.5° and 14° and the pH close to 3.2. Even more uniform than 2016, the whites’ harvest leads us to think that this 2017 vintage will be superb. We should finish tomorrow, and our thoughts are already turning to our red grapes whose harvest should start in the coming days.