Ô Joie and Fleurs des Champs : Two new Fleurie for Vicky’s Wines
Ô Joie and Fleurs des Champs : Two new Fleurie for Vicky’s Wines
Two new wines are joining my collection this week at Château des Moriers. For those who don't know, it's my family vineyard where I work with my father, in Beaujolais. It's been 10 years that Vicky's wines exist and it had been a while since a new release. Confined these pas weeks, the two Fleurie wine are ready to fly away to you. And I...
Vintage 2019 in Fleurie : family
We could be singing French love songs in the vineyard, to talk about the frivolous relationship between the grape pickers and their fellow grapes friend. But, many of the team members are faithful and come back every year to continue writing the vineyard story, plus they don’t speak French! Harvests come in series that don’t resemble each other. Even if, they are events that occur...
Rare Moments: Chef Akane Monavon at Chateau des Moriers (Fleurie)
Last week-end, the vineyard of Beaujolais changed into a huge feast. 35 properties were hosting a chef and special guests for a unique gastronomic experience, beaujonomic! At our home, Chateau des Moriers, it's the whole family who gave a hand to welcome more than 110 guests around chef Akane Monavon's menu. Born from a magic explosion between a Burgundian father and a Japanese mother, Akane's...
Week-end Beaujonomique : Akane Monavon at our family vineyard
'm waiting for you with my father Gilles and chef Akane Monavon. Book your table with us and taste the last vintages! From the terrasse, you will be able to see the famous windmill for the cru Moulin-à-vent and the Alps on good days. When : The 8th and 9th of June for lunch or dinner. Meal : 40 euros. Book at : https://www.bienvenue-en-beaujonomie.fr/en/Chateau-des-Moriers Our vineyard...
#Harvest2018, Chateau de Moriers Fleurie in the sunshine
At château des Moriers For Vicky's Fleurie 2018, the vintage should be legendary. Because the harvest was exceptional but also because it follows two years with low yield (we had frost and hail in 2016, hail again in 2017). Spring was humid allowing sufficient water reserve to prepare to the grand summer we had. Great for grapes and for swimming, not so amazing for our...
Fleurie 2017 – Hailstorm Harvest
30th of June 2017, we were writing on Chateau Des Moriers Facebook page: "In Beaujolais - all is going very well in the vineyard, the weather forcast is perfect, the vineyard is green, splendid thanks to the sunshine but also to this spring rainfalls. Here at our chateau, grapes just have to get ripe!". My father had never seen the vineyard in such a good...
Bien Boire en Beaujolais, edition 2017 !
Time goes by and I've not been writing to you for a while. Guess what, I'm back! This past seasons have been very busy, at home and in the vineyard. Our second son Constantin arrived early January, just on time for the Epiphany - a popular day amongst gourmands where we eat the legendary galette in France - a good day to be born, in...
Harvest 2015 soon in Beaujolais!
Grappes are changing color fast in Beaujolais. Vines are pretty but start to suffer from the heat. We shall have half the quantity normally expected, so the 2015 vintage will be a rare. If you had to compare it to another year, it would be 2003: grappes are small with a concentrate juice. Les grappes changent de couleur à toute allure en Beaujolais. The weather...
Christmas Before Christmas At Chateau Des Moriers #Fleurie #MasterOIV
One day I've met someone that had done the Master OIV, a very special training that leads you to visit about 26 wine countries in a year. If you have a family and a job, you have to organize. For the rest, you must make sure your stomach is sharp and that your brain is ready for an adventure. You must also be insured that...
The Harvest 2013 on a beautiful morning of automn at chateau de Moriers #vinsdeVicky
Harvest 2013 were expected a few weeks more than usual at chateau des Moriers, in my family, north of Beaujolais (Fleurie). Autumn arrived and grapes started singing. A warm morning, the 30th of September, a group of 25 grape pickers from 10 different nationalities arrived for a week of gymnastic in between the small vine trees (1m20). We were getting used to early harvest, but...