Pruning

Pruning Syrah Started pruning the Syrah today. Sunny with a light breeze so perfect weather for it. So nice that the ladybirds ventured out too.  Pruning...

Bottling

Bottling 2015 vintage We had a busy day on Tuesday, bottling our 2015 vintage. We made three wines in 2015, Domaine La Tasque  Carignan and a varietal Syrah. Also Tasque Grenache, which comes from a small vineyard of old vines which is owned by a friend of ours....

Rainy days

Raindrops on …vines! Last year was one of the driest on record, which is why we are very happy that it has been raining for several days now.  The road up to our vines was impassable yesterday. And when we did manage to get past it this morning, we found a very large...

90 points for Domaine La Tasque Carignan

We are very chuffed to have received some nice scores and comments from Andreas Larsson, the world’s best sommelier in 2007. He tasted our wines in December 2016, along with around 300 other IGP wines from the Langueodc. All wines were tasted blind and results...

Carignan? Spot the difference

Rogue vine in Carignan The Carignan vineyard is mostly, well, Carignan. But there are a few rogue white grapevines in amongst them. These are easiest to spot in Autumn when the leaves change colour. This vine is, we think, Grenache Gris and we wish we had a few more...