Autumn colours

Syrah in Autumn We ploughed the vineyard yesterday to decompact the soil and allow the water better access to the vine roots. Just in time – it is pouring with rain now!

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...

Green grapes

The grapes are looking good but still very green. Yields are very low in the Carignan vineyard but here’s a particularly good looking bunch. Carignan grapes – still green