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fter my report on the wines of
Berthet-Rayne
in August, I received an email from Dany
& Christian Berthet-Rayne expressing
their appreciation for the positive reviews that we presented. There
then followed several emails in which Christian sent us a series of
excellent photographs from the ongoing harvest in Chateauneuf du Pape,
which are presented below. Please note that all photos are clickable,
and link to considerably larger, more clearly defined images. Also
included are excerpts from Christian’s emails that provide commentary on
the images. Starting from the beginning:
 8/14/06:
Dear George
We must say Dany and I are very proud to see that
some one in a country so far from our estate could tell us: I enjoy your
wines and I will present them to the people who like Châteauneuf du Pape.
We read your presentation of Domaine Berthet-Rayne on the gangofpour web
site and we must say it is something fabulous for us because it is
always something great when people writing about the wine are happy
about the quality of our production.
Beginning of next month, we are starting the harvest and we hope (for) a
vintage like 2005. If you like, I will send you some pictures about the
harvest in Châteauneuf du Pape next month, and I will tell you how it is
working.
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To which I replied:
Dear Dany and Christian,
First off, thank you for sending along the picture of the 13 Cepages
poster! Perhaps we can find an opportunity to use it on a future Gang of
Pour page. As for our page featuring Domaine Berthet-Rayne, it's not
hard to say good things about such enjoyable and well made wines!
We'd love to see your harvest pictures, and to hear how things are
going! Please "keep us in the loop," as we say here in the US!
And keep us in the loop they did:
9/11/06: Dear George
As I promise you, we start the harvest today and I want to send you some
pictures (of) our first grapes we pick, grenache (blanc), roussane and
bourboulenc.
We think that (it) will be a very good vintage, we will see but for the white Châteauneuf, no problems. The grapes are very ripe, nice color and (have)
a fantastic
taste, we have a perfect production and in a couple of weeks when we
taste the white wine after fermentation, we hope (for) very much.
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