This morning, 30 August 2005 at 7:30am We have begun our harvest of the first grapes in Chateauneuf du Pape.

We begin the harvests slowly with a small team of pickers of about thrirty persons. As the Harvest gets into full swing in a week or two, we will increase the team to about 100 pickers. It is essential to have these changes in pickers to ensure that we can pick the grapes at their optimum maturity.

We started with our section of ‘young roussanne'. These grapes are destined for our white Chateau de Beaucastel , we are starting harvest on the parcel of vines 8 days earlier in comparison with the last year. 

The first white grapes harvested at Beaucastel

The weather is simply magnificent in the region