{"id":34002,"date":"2023-04-20T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/justesse-et-audace\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:47:29","slug":"justesse-et-audace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/home\/cos-chronicle\/justesse-et-audace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound, Daring Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”custom-intro”]O<\/span>ur terroir, situated on a bed of clay, and our deeply rooted ancient vines were naturally endowed with the resources they needed to face early drought and elevated temperatures. But these conditions nonetheless required ceaseless vigilance to anticipate the needs of our vines.<\/span><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”33971″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1681985199715{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1681998405845{border-top-width: 0px !important;}”]The soils were constantly worked to maintain a maximum of moisture. Leaf thinning, rarely as precise as it was for this vintage, was carried out only on the eastern and northern slopes to allow the vines to benefit from the gentler morning light.
\nThe process was also adapted to the specific needs of each grape variety: more sensitive to heat, the Cabernet Sauvignon vines underwent lighter leaf thinning than the Merlot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the start of the harvest on September 7 was as early as it was audacious. But it was a choice that proved critical. By September 10-11, we had already harvested the twenty-eight hectares of our most fragile Merlot vines\u2014those planted on gravel soils\u2014thanks to the efficiency of our Spanish harvesters, when we observed an increase in potential alcohol levels of 1\u00b0 in our Merlot planted on clay soils.
\nA later start to harvest would most likely have jeopardized the balance of our Merlot planted on gravel and the maturity levels of those planted on clay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, experience and sensitivity remained the guiding principles of this very intense vintage.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ultimately, experience and sensitivity remained the guiding principles of this very intense vintage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1749,"featured_media":33973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-de-bord","category-article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t