The good weather continued today with temperatures about 29–30°C for the whole region. The maturity of the grapes is rapidly evolving . The harvest was stoped at 11am and we did not pick grapes after noon.

Today we are not harvesting at Beaucastel. The roussannes picked yesterday will be decanted and will be racked today.  The clear juice will then be transferred to the fermentation tanks and barrels for the commencement of fermentation.

Also today, we will be re-checking our maturity controls on different parcels in the vineyard:
- to do this, our team goes out to each parcel and collects about 150 grapes, making a “random” selection of each grape from different vines.
- Next, the grapes are "pressed" and the juice is analysed. 
- We make the analysis of half of the juice in our laboratory, and send the other half to an independent laboratory to confirm our tests.  Of the different reading that we take, we look at content the sugars (that indicates the degree alcoholic final) and the acidity.