Attention, Rully-lovers all over the world – in this blog you can follow the work we carry out on vines, our wine-making activities and the daily lives of the men and the women who make Rully red and white wines truly excellent. The blog depicts the busy wine-making life, a life involving the use of fascinating knowledge and technology.
Follow developments regarding Rully wine on a daily basis, and read about the wine-making process as it happens, from vines to wine. Enjoy your visit!
19th May: It’s hot and humid. I meet Hervé and we take a look at the first Chardonnay flowers, hoping that pollination will produce the best quality fruit.
18th May: Vincent doesn’t have any premiers crus, but has had great won prizes with his Rully village wines in competitions.
17th May: I spend the day with Erell, one of the youngest female wine-growers in Rully. Why do you grow wine, Erell?
12th May:Mother Nature is early this year. Looking at his figures, Christophe-Jean explains to me that you count about 85 days between vines flowering and the right time for the grape harvest.
21st January: A parade goes past the statue of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of wine and wine growers. A fête is held in Rully in his honour.
1st December: Stéphane prunes the vines. It’s interesting to learn that pruning is done looking two years ahead – this is preparation for the 2008 crop.
21st September :All eyes are on the sorting table. When the grapes arrive, they are examined by the sorters. Good quality fruit is of the utmost importance.
12th September:Bottling and labelling at Paul’s premises. A large consignment of bottles of Rully 2005 is noisily prepared.
13th September:The grape harvest is brought in. The cuverie, where fermentation takes place, is an extremely clean building. Heat and premature fermentation must be avoided. The wine begins its life.
8th September :The INAO has been to look at the vines and the wine-growers have made a full tour of all the plots of land.
6th September : at Jean-Claude’s before the grape harvest. Hail has done some damage and we examine the vines. A refractometer is used to work out the optimum date for the harvest.
