{"id":955,"date":"2026-09-01T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:03:37","slug":"the-2026-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/en\/2026\/09\/01\/the-2026-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unprecedented for this 2026 harvest! Since I took over the vineyard in 2021\u2014six years ago now\u2014this year’s harvest came very early<\/strong>. In fact, we picked the grapes on Saturday, August 22nd. Not only is this a first for my plot, but also in my lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as for quantity<\/strong>, it\u2019s also the lowest of the six harvests. That feeling when you thought you\u2019d already hit rock bottom in terms of yield in 2025, only to find that 2026 was lower still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, the quality<\/strong> is excellent, and the alcohol content is unheard of as well: 14.2%. We did, however, have to sort out the grapes dried up by the heatwaves. The five heatwaves between June and August severely impacted the yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That didn’t stop us from harvesting in good spirits and with pleasant weather\u2014as someone who always dreads the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great crew of eight harvesters made up of my brothers and sisters, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Pierre our nurse, and the kids. Not to mention my wife, who prepared the meals and snacks to keep our strength up while working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unprecedented for this 2026 harvest! Since I took over the vineyard in 2021\u2014six years ago now\u2014this year’s harvest came very early. In fact, we picked the grapes on Saturday, August 22nd. Not only is this a first for my plot, but also in my lifetime. And as for quantity, it\u2019s also the lowest of the… Poursuivre la lecture The 2026 harvest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe-en","entry"],"mb":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHOTO-2026-08-30-21-35-25-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","gutenberg_elementor_mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintennemond.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}