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2025 Harvest Reports!
2025 Harvest Reports!
<p>As we ease into the new year, it's that time to look to the future by reading about the past: <a href="https://louisdressner.com/harvest-reports?&ArticleSearch[year]=2025&ArticleSearch[country_id]=&ArticleSearch[producer_id]=">over 30 harvest reports from the 2025 vintage are up for your perusing pleasure!</a></p>
<p>2025 will be remembered as three things: extremely precocious, great overall quality and quantities that were all over the place: great for some, ok or terrible for others. </p>
<p>We thank all the producers who contributed their stories and photos and look forward to sharing the fruits of their labor in 2026 and beyond.</p>
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Tips For Navigating the Website.
How to navigate the website.
<p><u><strong>Desktop vs Mobile:</strong></u></p>
<p>We know people use their phones a lot, so we've worked hard on ensuring the site functions well on mobile devices. Having said that, we recommend using a laptop/desktop to optimally peruse our content. </p>
<p><u><strong>Glossary:</strong></u></p>
<p>At its core, this has always been a website written for wine professionals *attempting* to glean information on the wines we import - and hopefully see a picture of the vigneron's dog. Since the jargon can be so technical, we've added an <glossary term="glossary" title="1427">interactive glossary</glossary> to the text for those unfamiliar with the baffllingly complex world of wine terminology. Even if you're a seasoned pro, you might learn a thing or two. And if you'd rather read the content without the glossary, simply head to the main menu bar and turn it off. </p>
<p> "<u><strong>Our Wines" Section: </strong></u></p>
<p>In the "Our Wines" section, we've offered a variety of filter categories for you to explore and discover all the cuvées we import. These filters can be combined together to narrow down results. If you hit a wall with no results, simply erase one of the filters or clear all filters. </p>
<p><u><strong>Technical Information For Each Wine:</strong></u></p>
<p>78% of the wines we import have extremely detailed technical information when clicked on, dare I say the most technical anywhere on the internet. Half of these are probably woefully outdated.</p>
<p><u><strong>Search:</strong></u></p>
<p>If you know what producer or wine you are searching for, the search should quickly autofill what you need. Go ahead, give it a whirl. You can also hit enter after searching and skup the autofill.</p>
<p><strong><u>Hyperlinks/PDFs:</u></strong></p>
<p>Every single piece of content on the website has its own hyperlink. This means you can easily share a specific producer page, article, wine or filter combination with anyone. You can also save or print out PDF's bt clicking the PDF icon.</p>
<p><u><strong>Copy/Paste:</strong></u></p>
<p>Due to the website's design, if you need to copy/paste anything, the glossary needs to be turned off for the text to paste correctly. We recommend using the PDF feature instead. </p>
<p>Also, if you are going to straight up use our writing verbatim, PLEASE credit us when doing so. Seems obvious but we see it happen all the time. </p>
<p><u><strong>A Shit-Ton of Written Content:</strong></u></p>
<p>The articles themselves can often be very long, and for this reason we developed a Propriety Pop Up System™ where you can easily scroll through various articles/wines and "pop out" to efficiently look at the rest of the content.</p>
<p>We've tried our best to pack as many dog pictures as possible in there, but the digital ink has been spilled: the cumulation of decades' worth of writings from Joe, Denyse, Kevin and Jules is here for you to read. A huge part of the work with this new website was to find better ways to condense and extract essential information you need without getting lost in all that BORING text. </p>
<p>We still think you should check it out. Don't worry, there are plenty of pictures. And you might even find the writing interesting. Or funny. Or both. </p>
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A Pitch-Perfect 2025 for François Cazin
<p>2025: A Nice Year!</p>
<p>We are able to reclaim some optimism with this vintage. No crazy weather, no frost in April, a dry Spring favorable to the vines' development, a flowering in early June that indicated we'd be harvesting early. We had a pretty violent storm in July that caused some damages around us; we were spared and actually benefited from the the rain: the result was an acceleration of maturities as the usual heat of summer ramped up starting on August 10th. </p>
<p>Our team was ready to pick its first grapes on September 1st, the Chardonnay destined for our Crémant. We then harvested the earliest ripening Sauvignons, followed by the Pinot Noirs, all of which were beautiful and perfectly ripe. White or red, we brought in a very satisfactory average of 40hl/ha. From the beginning, everything is pointing toward 2025 being an excellent vintage: excellent balance, not too much sugar and, for the reds, good fruit and supple tannins. </p>
<p>From September 16th to the 24th, we picked the Romorantin. It was exceptionally early for this variety, but nonetheless the quality and quantity was excellent. As of this writing, the last vats are finishing their fermentations but there is still a lot of work to do. With Romorantin you really need to take your time. Aging it on the lees is very important for a good expression of the terroir and the vintage. </p>
<p>In the end, 2025 lives up to its "year ending in 5" reputation which for whatever reason is always memorable and exceptional!</p>
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