Thésée, Touraine (Loire)
The temperature was pretty low when I came to see Anouk and Paul
in their vineyard, with early mornings at minus 3 C (26,6 F) and highs at around + 3 C (37,4 F). Yes, pruning time is back and Touraine is known to be rather cold at this season,
the humidity making it feel worse. Pruning is so important for the future fruit bearing but that's where you realize that if a vine has to suffer to make good wine (Jean-Michel Deiss explains it so well), the growers themselves have to go through tough trials before they get to see their fruit. Everybody had underpants (including me) to keep warm, and gloves (except Johan pictured below). We're here on the plateau above Thésée, reaching these parcels is easy : you drive up the small road on the left of the church, take the first left, then as soon as you see vines you take the 1st dirt/mud road on the left... I stopped my venerable Ami 8 (which behaves like a fear-nothing all-terrain vehicule) near this bicycle and car, it happened to belong to the small team, I could guess them in the far. Good thing I brought boots, it was very muddy.
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