Foreign Perspectives

This is the time of year when the vines that aren’t free-standing are reattached to their supports. As usual, this task proceeds at the typical speed of such things in France ie slowly and only on good days. Fortunately, there are many such days at this time of year and I’m writing this piece on one of those where it’s very much t-shirt weather for me.

The landscape retains the stark look that you see until after Easter when the grapes start to grow once again as you can see from the Year in the Vineyards feature. Whilst in January things can be very quiet with even Queribus closed for the month, by February preparations are underway for the full-scale reopening in March so it’s not so quiet as you might expect. For example, just 90 minutes or so from us the ski resorts are in full swing.