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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 Half of these are probably woefully outdated.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>
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<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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2025 Harvest Recap from Champagne Tarlant
<p>The 2025 harvest began on August 29th, marking one of the earliest starts in the estate’s history. A hot, dry summer accelerated ripening across the vineyards and led to reduced yields, yet the fruit arrived in excellent condition, with concentration and balance that reflect the resilience of the sites in Œuilly.</p>
<p>For the second consecutive year, harvesting was carried out exclusively in 12-kilo crates. This method ensures that clusters remain intact with minimal pressure before pressing, while also allowing closer attention to the specific character of each parcel. A specialized team monitored the fruit directly in the vineyard, carefully selecting bunches to guarantee that only healthy grapes reached the cellar.<br />
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The season highlighted the diversity of the estate’s terroirs. Certain parcels, particularly those on lighter soils, produced riper fruit with greater richness, while cooler or more chalk-influenced sites preserved freshness and tension. This contrast reinforces the importance of vinifying each parcel separately, maintaining the individual expression of the vineyards.<br />
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Overall, the 2025 harvest was limited in volume but consistent in quality. The wines now in the cellar will carry forward the character of the year: precise, expressive, and faithful to the conditions that shaped them.</p>
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A "Good Hot" 2025 For Domaine Bernard Baudry
<p>2025 feels like the polar opposite of its neighbor 2024. The dry climate we saw is in fact more reminiscent of nice years like 2020 and 2022. </p>
<p>Winter was rainy up until mid-March, followed by nice weather without any extreme spikes, leading to a healthy spring void of illness; only four treatments were applied the entire season which is pretty exceptional. </p>
<p>Flowering was early and followed by a dry and hot summer punctuated by good, necessary rains in July. But then August was very dry, seriously accelerating the grapes' maturities. We were worried the vines would suffer from hydric stress in the sandy sectors; while this was a legitimate concern it only ended up lowering yields in these areas a tiny bit. We did get some rain at the end of August, but it didn't do much to change our very precocious harvest date.</p>
<p>We started with some Chenin at the very end of August for our yet to be released sparkling wine, then early September for the dry whites. The Cabernet Franc was just as early-ripening as 2022. The wines are concentrated and reminiscent of GOOD hot years like 2018, 2020 and 2022 yet with their own, very interesting balance. And despite their relatively low acidity, the 2025 are still very juicy and salivating. </p>
<p>We're also happy to announce that 2025 will see the return of "Croix Boissée Blanc" which had not been produced in the last few vintages.</p>
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