The Wine Year in Provence and the 2023 Harvest
All of France For all of France, the wine harvest is estimated to end up at 44.5 million hl, which is roughly the average for the last 5 years, but there are...
Category: Vintages
No Dancing on Roses to be a Wine Journalist and try 192 Rosé Wines!
My wife Maria and I had the chance to try our hand at being wine journalists, when at the end of May we tasted 192 rosé wines from Provence. The world’s leading...
Provence Experiences “2022”
Provence rosé wines from 2021 have unfortunately not impressed me as many wines lacked the typical fruity freshness for me, perhaps due to the Grenache grape taking a beating from the frost...
Provence Vintages
In my Provence wine books there is a chapter with vintage assessments of the wines and the book “The Wines of Provence – Tricolour” reports a preliminary assessment up to vintage 2018...
2021 – A difficult wine year in Provence – 2
According to a brand-new information, the 2021 wine crop in Provence seems to be pretty good, at least in terms of volume! In my last newsletter a month ago, I feared that...
2021 – A Difficult Wine Year in Provence
The weather this year has really disadvantaged the winegrowers in France and so also in Provence. Frost, fire, hail and even turtles that make it worse. How will the wine vintage 2021...
Promising vintage in Provence – The harvest is ongoing – See video!
Promising vintage The grape harvest in Provence 2020 seems to be of a very high quality and this after a troublesome start to the year: The winter was unusually warm and was...
Promising vintage 2019 in Provence!
After 1 – 2 difficult years for the vine growers in Provence, 2019 finally came with better conditions! The two previous vintages have been rated: 2018: The first rating based on wines...
