{"id":1408,"date":"2017-09-03T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lescombescachees.fr\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T16:58:53","slug":"2017-harvest-well-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/vendanges-2017-tres-en-avance\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 harvest: two weeks ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2017 harvest started more than 15 days ahead of schedule\/ Our Viognier de La Martelle, a lovely 60-acre plot, reached maturity in mid-August and was picked on August 23. The two previous years we harvested it on September 02.<\/p>\n<p>The quality is there, with beautiful aromatic expression and generous alcohol. However, as with our Languedoc counterparts, the yield of our smaller cuv\u00e9es is very, very small. For the second year running, there will be very few. The heat and dryness of July and August, without a drop of rain, blocked development, despite a fine springtime emergence of the bunches, which augured a fine harvest.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, we have already harvested 30% of our surface area: all our whites, our ros\u00e9, and our first parcels of early-ripening reds. But of course we still have the bulk of our red plots: our Syrah and Grenache are waiting to be picked, especially on our high-altitude terroirs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nos vendanges 2017 ont d\u00e9marr\u00e9 avec plus de 15 jours d&rsquo;avance sur le calendrier habituel\/ Notre Viognier de La Martelle, jolie\u00a0parcelle de 60 ares est arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 maturit\u00e9 d\u00e8s la mi-ao\u00fbt et nous l&rsquo;avons vendang\u00e9 le 23 ao\u00fbt. Les deux ann\u00e9es pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes nous l&rsquo;avions vendang\u00e9 le 02 septembre. La qualit\u00e9 est au rendez-vous avec une [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-combes-cachees.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}