Normally fall and winter serve us to refurbish the groundwaters. But winter is not very wet and very mild, too mild. We fear even an exit of the buds that came too early which would be mowed by the first frost. A heavy rain finally arrives, but a little too late. Indeed, the vegetation having appeared, diverts the precipitations of these phreatic water tables. The spring frosts from early April to mid-May make us fear the worst and we had partly reduced it by pruning very late. From May to June, rain and heat come together: tropical atmosphere without palm trees. The plant literally explodes. Unfortunately, the one who leads the dance is the mildew. The closing of the bunch stops it. Temperatures are rather lenient in July-August. Before the harvest, the temperature increases strongly and the cabernetsauvignon perspires and its berries reduce quickly. The vine surprises us once again with its resilience and produces a typical structural Medoc on the fruit.

A little wet winter with some very cold sessions. The rain finally arrives in January and February
Worries about the frost at the end of March and the beginning of April. Beautiful bloom. Four heat waves strike from June. Concerned, however, we note a certain stoicity of the vineyard that seems to suffer less than us.
The harvest in good conditions is early, the light rains were well come. In the cellar, no aroma of over-ripeness, fruit already.

The autumn and the winter following the harvest are too rainy and too mild. Mars surprises with abnormal high temperature. The vineyard is mistaken and already believes in the return of the fine weather
The virulent frosts of April bring it back to reality by mowing its tender leaves barely hatched. A flowering in the moisture spares the cabernet-sauvignon more than the merlot. Summer is in the norm.
The rains return during the harvest. We hold on and pull the grape varieties till maturity.

The rain begins in September and ends in December. An abnormal mildness begins in January and finishes late February. The first COVID containment occurs under bright sunlight and high temperatures.
Beginning in mid-April, numerous and heavy rains compromise the works at the vineyards. June is wet and mildew threatens (agaaaain!). A superb summer stops it but becomes too hot in late August and early September.
Our fresh sub-soils save the day to the cabernet-sauvignon. The harvest sky is grey but the rains are rare.

Winter 2019 is classic thus perfect, quite cold and not too wet. February and March are very mild but very dry, followed by an April with very dense rains.
No better with a few frost nights that heckle a few buds. A very regular rain floods June and the flower get out of it, almost. July sets records of heat. August and early September are more normalized.
Alas, it is under a threatening and sometimes yielding sky that the harvest will take place.
But once again, experience and cold-blood give birth to a very good wine, even exceptional.

It was a Hitchkockian year. After the harvest, a dry autumn settles in durably. Then since January, it falls in three months as much rain as in a year. Mechanical work is complicated, the pruning too ,of course. The vine slows down. With a very hot end of April, it explodes but the soil remains very moist.
We note slight attacks of mildew on leaf but nothing abnormal or very worrying. At the beginning of July, however, a treatment does not seem to meet the demands of this tense climate. In fact, the mildew proliferates rapidly on the bunches and causes a real havoc. It is too late. The very dry summer stops the disaster. However, the vineyard transpiration is upper than normal. The volume is decreasing again. Fortunately, the hand-sorted harvest then optically one bring a ripe and healthy harvest to the vats. The result is dazzling but we only have 30% of an average year and a rough blend compared to a classic year. Even if the Cabernet Sauvignon remains major, it leaves a little more room for the Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Which is delighting us.

Winter is mild and dry. The early spring is very hot (30° sometimes), but still no rain. An icy current carried by a wind from north hits on April 27th. The frost impacts illogically coombs but also ridges.
The rest of the year takes place rather classically with some very hot days in august among many others, more moderated.
The spared grapes follow a classic calendar. The harvests begin in the middle of september but linger little. Cabernet is more numerous on arrival and show themselves magnificent.

We did not have a winter. Too gentle and too wet. During six months, it falls more rain at the time than one year average. An unexpected and sudden short shiny space of time allows a homogenuous flowering.
The summer is hot and sometimes too hot until september. We are surprised to hope a couple of rain drop. It happens beginning of september. The plant ceases to protect itself from this exhausting heat for taking again the way to the maturation. The youngs vines are reanimated, the old ones stay hieratic in front of a such undecision.
The harvest are tardy and the beautiful weather makes them happen serenely. The cabernet sauvignon adores that: the mark of the great medocan vintages.

Immediately after the harvest, the rain is falling heavily. It stops a little bit in December, but start all over again in January. The winter is limited to a few rare cold and frosted days with abundant rains. The spring happens without specific climatic event.
June is suddenly very hot. The flowering likes that. July is canicular, the vine suffers. August gives it a respite. Its rains of the early month are perfect for the veraison. September is beautiful.
The harvest begins late. We escape to a couple of heavy storms. The merlot mature quietly. Temperatures are quite low and the nights, very cold. The cabernet sauvignon brakes. Rains relaunch them but sudden warm nights and days worry. The atmosphere is concerned but the result comforting.

The rain falls abundantly as soon as the harvest has been finished. In december, it calms down a little but begins again even stronger in january. Februar increases the load with swell, wind, storm and hail. March remains dark. May sees the beautiful weather coming.
June knows a couple of very hot days and nights. The flowering appréciates. July is cloudy and august almost wet. The 31st of august, arrives the longest ever indian summer of the decade interrupted by hailstorms and cloudbursts. The temperature becomes abnormal (30°C).
The Cabernet Sauvignon dawdles and matures. So, the harvest is late but promising.

Immediatly after the harvest, the rain is constant till mid february. Almost 600 mm fall down, and it’s good after three years of an hydric diet.
The end of the winter and the beginning of the spring will be very wet and sometimes snowy.
The vines loves the unexpected heat which lasts from mid-april to june. Then, unfortunatly, the rain comes back on the flowering.
An phenologic delay is scheduled. If july and august have been sometimes caniculars, september joins again wet days and warm nights. The harvest moves forward because tricky. A suite of shiny days and cool nights come down the atmosphere. The cabernet sauvignon eases the situation but the merlot stays on pressure.
Harvest are physical. Performing tools and self control are necessary. The yield is divided by two but made of healthy berries and the wine will be good.

Winter is very wet and spring will be even wetter. Sub-soils are rebuilding their reduced water stock of the last few years. The plant grows fast after winter and work is done very quickly. Then it dallies during April, May and June. There is a delay, July, in turn, is wet and it may trigger cryptogamic diseases, but fortunately the delay has shortened. August is beautiful and warm and it regulates the situation. A nice dry weather carries on until September. At last, the homogeneity of the wine grape takes place. But the phenological time-lag is there and we must now be patient, worried as we become due to a series of warm nights and wet days. All risk is taken to ensure optimum maturity. Rot is spared and we end up quite serene on the whole.

Winter and the beginning of the spring are rainy. May and June are scorching and very dry. The plant doubles it strenght. The flower goes well thanks to the dry weathers. July is conveniently the coolest for 30 years. In August, the month is divided between beautiful and dark weather.

The abundance of humidity and the hot season give to the concern, threatening with the rot. Wind and sun inaugurate the harvests. The tension eases off. The maturity is going on with the rot, the grapes are cleaned up of some contaminated bunch and tannins will go up for the end in sight moving towards the quality.

2009年のシーズンを終えた土壌は、生気を失っていた。収穫後すぐに、雨が大量に降った。厳しい冬が終わり、春にまた雨が続いた。残念なことに、雨のせいでメルローの花が若干遅れ、畑の三分の一ほどが結実不良となった。
夏の初めは猛暑となった。8月は日中と夜間の寒暖の差が顕著だった。雨が降らず、夜間が涼しく、日中の気温が平均して高めだったことで、乾燥状態に近づいていた。
不安は高まったものの、9月初めに何日か雨が降り、メドック地区が安堵に包まれた。
収穫期間中も、メルローとカベルネ・ソーヴィニョンの収穫の合間というちょうど良い時にまた雨があった。

かなり寒い冬の後、2009年のシーズンは多湿に始まり、非常に乾燥した終わりを迎えた。4月・5月は雨が多く、8月・9月はとても乾燥していた。逆説的だが、葡萄の生育は順調で、開花は早く安定しており、実も均等に成熟した。8月・9月は日中と夜間の気温差が20度ほどあり、素晴らしい当たり年となった。こうした条件において、葡萄の成熟が安定し、乾燥は悪影響よりも、むしろ良い影響を与えた。
10月初旬まで、夏らしい気候が続いた。

2008年の気候には、4月初旬の霜と7月末の雹という2つの異変があった。6月から7月中旬にかけて、葡萄は順調に生育。8月には日照不足がしばしば見られ、気温も上がらなかった。寒冷ではなかったものの、8月、気温は期待したほど上がらず不十分だった。
8月後半の2週間、大雨が降り、不安が最高潮にまで高まった。晴天を待ち焦がれる日々が9月13日まで続いた。9月後半から収穫時期にかけては、逆に、乾燥して、夜間は涼しく、日中は暖かく、晴天でそよ風が吹くという理想的な気候となった。

2007年の冬はまったく過酷ではなかった。しかし、3月が寒冷だったため、葡萄の発芽が2006年と同様に4月初旬にずれ込んだ。4月中旬からの20日間ほどは、とくに暖かい日となり、4月20日から23日にかけては気温が30度近くまで上がった。
開花と実の成熟は順調で、問題なかった。
8月は、逆に、涼しく曇天が多く、嵐の日もあった。
8月末までは日照時間が少なく、9月に入った途端、これを取り戻すように晴天が続いた。9月の気候は完璧で、寒冷だった8月中の生育の遅れが一部回復された。

8月の気候条件のため、実の成熟開始が遅れた。日照は6月・7月に比べて弱く、気温は平年並みを下回った(1986年以来、最も気温が低い8月でしたが、素晴らしい当たり年となった)。
異常に涼しい気候のせいで、早いうちに始まっていた葡萄の成熟が遅れた。収穫時期を少し遅らせ、7月中旬から8月にかけては難しいと予測されていた実の成熟度を高めた。
カベルネ・ソーヴィニョンは最終的には完熟に至った。

2005年は、冬から秋にかけて、ボルドーとしてはとくに乾燥した気候で、春の終わりから夏にかけて暑い好天が続いたものの猛暑にはならず、素晴らしい当たり年となった。
8月、日中と夜間の気温差が大きかったことで、実の成熟中、アルコール度数は高くならなかった。
こうしたことが要因となって、甘味と酸味の素晴らしいバランスが生まれた。
9月、夏らしい気温が徐々に下がったことで、この素晴らしいバランスが維持され、早いうちに快適に収穫が行われた。

冬、気温は例年より低く、降水量は非常に少なかった。発芽は4月に始まったものの、雨と低気温のため葡萄の生育は進まなかった。5月後半に晴天が戻り、生育の進んでいた区画で開花が始まった。
夏はあまり暑くなかった。7月は日当り状況がよく、降雨が少なく、気温はまったく例年並みで、月末に何度か高温になる日があった。8月はその逆で、雨が多く、日照時間はあまり長くなく、気温もさほど高くならなかった。収穫期間中は雨天と晴天が交互に訪れた。

秋は非常に多湿だった。1月・2月の気温はかなり低く、3月は寒さが緩んだ。4月に雹が降ったものの、5月には気温が例年並みまで上昇した。
しかし、6月になると、気温が非常に高くなり、そのまま7月末まで続いた。8月の平均気温は例年より5度高かった。9月になっても高気温は続いたが、この時期としては妥当なもので、果実が早いうちに最高の成熟度に到達する条件を満たしていた。

秋は乾燥し、寒冷だった。11月から翌年4月にかけては乾燥状態にあり、降水量が足りなかった。5月、降水量は十分にあり、通常より多いほどだった。 逆に、6月・7月は高温で乾燥していた。
8月、寒冷な気温のために生育が遅れ、9月初旬も同様だった。9月中旬以降、ようやく、晴天が続き、実の成熟が進んだ。しかし、9月中旬には雹を伴う悪天候のために不安が高まったものの、最終的にはわずかな被害で済んだ。

冬は比較的温暖で、降雨もあったため、葡萄の生育が早めに始まった。4月になってから生育リズムが遅れたのは、引き続き多湿だったものの寒冷といっていいほど気温が低かったからである。5月・6月は乾燥しており、7月にまた雨が降った。
8月は高温で、規則正しい降雨があった。雨と暑さが交互に訪れたため、成熟開始が若干遅れた。
9月の平均気温は例年より低く、雨は突然、大量に降り、すぐに排水されていった。低気温が続き、収穫時期が遅れた。

4月から5月にかけては温暖で湿潤、疫病が見られたが、その後、乾燥した時期が続いたので影響はなかった。6月、気候条件が改善し、開花に問題はなく、状況が持ち直した。7月と8月も、穏やかな気候という好ましい状況が続き、気温が35度を超えることはなかった。
9月、雨天と晴天が交互に訪れた。降雨量は少なくまばら、必要な箇所にだけ降ったと言えるほどであり、風が強く乾燥した部分を補う形になり、特別に良い成熟状況に至った。