I am in Paris - for the first time ever in the springtime. I think that I have only ever been here in the winter, with cool misty greyness everywhere. The light lasts until late in the evening, and the flowers and trees are all exploding in green and vibrant colors. Birds are singing everywhere, the sun is shining and everything seems perfect!
I am not here in France just to enjoy - I have meetings all the following week - a series of technical trainings with a company called 'Vivelys' which does winemaking consulting, has developed several significant winemaking technologies, and has some very exciting new sensory analysis tools with built-in multivariate statistical analysis over the internet. Those meetings begin on Sunday and stretch throughout the week to Friday - it will be with 9 US & Canadian winemakers, and we will travel from Montpellier in the South of France, upward with our final destination in Bordeaux, stopping at wineries throughout the region as we go to view case studies of the ways that their technologies have been implemented.
In addition, I am traveling this weekend to Avignon, to meet with the family of the student who will be our intern this vintage at Eos. They have a Domaine in Chateauneuf du Pape & Rasteau, just north of Avignon. It will be great to meet them and get to know something about their winemaking.
Cheers!
No comments:
Post a Comment