Vue du Mont-Brouilly

Good wine can only be made from high-quality grapes. That is why we place so much importance on the cultivation of our vines. Our vines are selected by massal selection and their careful maintenance year after year guarantees their durability. Our vineyards are more than 60 years old, and the oldest was planted more than a century ago, in 1906.

Our work in the vineyards is punctuated by the seasons. The high planting density of around 10,000 vines per hectare and the configuration of the Mont Brouilly site make the work difficult to mechanise. So it’s essentially manual work on the hillside.

Working the vines in the spring
Working the vines in the summer
Working the vines in the autumn
Working the vines in the winter

Spring

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Soil maintenance: ploughing and nutrient inputs

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Budding (bud burst and first leaves appear)

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Disbudding (conservation of the most fruit-bearing shoots)

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Flowering (flower apparition)

Summer

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Leaf care : Leaf removal, lifting and trimming

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Fruit-set (transformation of flowers into fruit)

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Bunch closure

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Maturation & Veraison (change in berry colour)

Autumn

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Maturity (sugar and aroma concentration of the berries)

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Harvest

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Leaf fall

Winter

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Dormancy (vegetative rest)

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Vine maintenance: Pruning

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Vine maintenance: Pruning