Joseph Drouhin: Chablis Harvest Begins

July has been extremely hot, August cool and rainy, and we thought both months would compensate to allow us to harvest around September 23rd. Actually, the humidity contained in the soil combined with the nice weather we enjoyed early September, favoured the maturity.We will begin harvesting next week, probably on Wednesday 20th. In Chablis, the ripening process has been fairly quick and we have already started picking in some early vineyards of low charge. To our knowledge, it is the first time that harvesting in our Chablis vineyards begins before in Côte d'Or. The main start will be on September 18th.

Winesofchablis.com Experimental Search Feature

I added Google SiteSearch to the front page of the web site today. I'm not particularly thrilled about how it fits in to the site design at this time, but I want to give it a try before I do any significant redesigns. I like the way it works to some degree, but it only picks up pages that Google has spidered so far, a huge minus. Google has, as of today, crawled 71 pages on WinesOfChablis.com; there are at least twice that many tasting note pages alone. Nevertheless, it is a quick fix to the site's need be able to quickly find information on your favorite Chablis wines, vineyards and domaines.