September 18th, cinsault and the first syrah

After a couple of days of rain at the end of last week, the mistral started blowing strongly on sunday, cleaned the sky and dried the grapes.
Today (monday) the weather is also very nice and windy... these are ideal conditions.
We started the red grapes by harvesting the Cinsault of Coudoulet de Beaucastel and the first Syrah .

In the beggining of the small video below, Pierre Perrin does a final maturity check before we start the harvest of the syrah.

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