September 2015

As the summer draws to a close, we feel the grape harvest and wine-making (vindima) coming on. We live in an area of tiny smallholdings, where almost everyone has vines enough to keep them in wine for the year. Although it's rare to see anyone out on the land checking their grapes, we know they must keep an eye on them, checking ripeness and counting forward to estimate when the harvest should take place – taking due consideration of the weather forecasts, too.