Our alarm goes off before 6am. By the time the sun is properly up, we're already in the rows. This is the unglamorous stretch of the growing season: no harvest, no pressing, no ceremony. Just monitoring the ...

We're going to be honest with you: nobody plans for July conditions in May. The last week of May in Bordeaux is supposed to feel like a generous spring: warm afternoons, cool enough evenings to sleep with ...

At Château Canon Chaigneau, we talk a lot about terroir, grape variety, and vineyard care. But when harvest arrives, one factor dominates everything else: the weather. The conditions in the very days and hou...

When walking through the vineyard in late summer, the clusters of grapes look tempting. They taste sweet, their skins are rich in colour, and they seem ready to harvest. But appearances can be deceiving. For...

We completed the 2023 harvest on the 27th of September, les écoulages and vinifications. Things went very well, with a good quantity of very ripe, juicy, thick-skinned berries, healthy acidity and potential ...

All year, our vines grow quietly. From Winter pruning, to Spring budburst, to Summer sun. We wait and maintain patiently through months of slow development. Then, everything comes down to a few days. At Chât...