Domaine La Tasque – from grape to glass

The story of Domaine La Tasque, in photos I have been trying without success to load a slideshow onto the website. So here is a selection of still photos, with captions, which shows what we do in the vineyards and cellar to make Domaine La Tasque. Alternatively, view...

Harvesting Syrah and Carignan

Harvest 2016, cont’d We have harvested the rest of our Syrah and all of our Carignan. Ripe, healthy grapes but tiny yield The grapes are perfectly ripe and beautifully healthy – just not many of them. The Carignan grapes are particularly small so we...

Harvest 2016

Hand harvesting Syrah 2016   hand harvesting At Domaine La Tasque we harvested our Syrah yesterday. We harvested by hand under beautiful blue skies.                 Grapes loaded onto Simon’s mad machine The pre-harvest...

Beasties in the vines

Some insects in the vineyard Summer is here. Temperature have soared to 35°C and the cicadas are in full voice. Here are a few photos of the insect life in our Syrah vineyard this week. This cicada looks pretty calm but he can zoom around the vineyard at great speed,...

Who’s been eating our vines?

  A couple of weeks ago, we were alarmed to see that several of our Syrah vines had been munched by an unidentified predator. The damage was too high up to be wild boar so we thought it might be deer, although we’ve never seen any in the vineyard. Three days...

Autumn colours

Carignan in Autumn September and October were incredibly mild in the Langueodc. It is only now, in mid November, that there is a nip to the air and it actually feels like Autumn.  Finally, the vines are showing their Autumn colours. And my husband has ditched his...