Domaine Pech Redon
The dramatic scenery of La Clape, but on a rather grey day. I always enjoy seeing Christophe Bousquet as he is nicely opinionated and does not mince his words. Asked about the 2025 harvest, he quoted a colleague who described it as a millésime de merde ; in other words a shitty vintage. And then he proceeded to explain. Quantity is small and things are complicated. We met at the beginning of Sepember and he was expecting to start the harvest a few days later, on 8th September. They have had drought and coup de chaleur , or heat wave which harms the grapes. The wild boar are problematic too. There was a good storm with 70 mms of rain in the middle of July, but it was so dry that there was no reaction from the vines, with no trace of the water two days later, and still very tiny grapes. The skins ar...
