The excellent weather conditions of the last few weeks alongwith some good rain have stimulated growth. Vines are looking very healthy. We are at mid-flowering. We will soon start lifting the canopy.
What could it be like to have an outdoor breakfast at l'Ameillaud?
Size the opportunity of a stay starting 1st to 8th July at an exceptionnal rate. Please enquire.
Tonight April 10th, Femmes Vignes Rhône party. On this occasion we will present our last born cuvée, 2015 Harmas, a Cairanne CDR Villages, red wine.
L'ameillaud, 2015 AOC Cairanne Villages, a pleasant score for a pleasant wine,
...white pepper, black raspberry, creamy licorice and strawberry notes all emerge from this beauty and it has
elegance and richness, with top notch tannin quality...says Robert Parker. On sale in two weeks.
The Ameillaud wines mentionned in Essential Provence, La vie en Rosé, by Anthony Peregrine. You may read it on
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/essential-provence-rfszrxxwt.
Otherwise on the paper edition of Sunday 29th January.
2017, a real Winter. Frost , mistral and now snow. A welcome rest for the vines.
With some poppy red hints
The first hazy days as a premised #Winter at #lameillaud.
L'Ameillaud 2015 Vin de Pays is scored 88 by the Wine Spectator and is one of the "16 Mouthwatering Rhône Values" according 7th James Molesworth's article of October 7th, 2016.
An opportunuity to spend a week around Christmas at the mas Meyeau, in this part
of Provence, with amazing winter lights and deep blue sky.
An enjoyable comment received a few days ago from the 'London Business School MSc 1981 Reunion in Provence'. Once again the Wine Tour was conducted by Nick, the owner-winemaker at l'Ameillaud.
Today starts our second week of harvest. On today's menu, Syrah and Grenache.
The weather is still very fine and so are the grapes!
Robert, Shelley plus children and friends accompanied Nick in a new Wine Tour treating different aspects of the vine management, followed by a cellar visit and tasting.