Chanterêves

10/04/2026

Such beau and fascinating creatures. At Chorey « Champs Longs »

05/04/2026

09/02/2025

Some of our favorite winter images from 3 weeks ago, pruning in our Savigny « Dessus de Montchenevoy » with Marie.

When was the last time that we had a persisting wintery weather since December? It assures that the vines stay dormant as they should be in winter.

14/07/2024

🇫🇷 Vendanges 2023
Voulez vous participer?
Envoyez-nous un message privé!

★ à partir de la semaine du 9 septembre (à confirmer)
★ principalement les matinées
★ Environ 12 matinées sur une durée de 3 semaines
★ Minimum participation de 2-3 fois
★ Pause café dans la matinée et casse croute à midi avec du vin de Chanterêves
★ Pour ceux qui viennent de loin, logement est disponible.
★ Pour les étrangers, PERMIS DE TRAVAIL OBLIGATOIRE

🇺🇸🇬🇧 The harvest is around the corner ! Would you like to join our international harvest team? Send us a DM!

★ Starting in the week of 9th of September (to be confirmed)
★ 4-5 hours in the morning
★ Around 12 half-days (mornings) during 3 weeks
★ Minimum participation is 2 to 3 times
★ Coffee break in the morning and light lunch at noon with our wines!
★ Accommodation is available
★ Working holiday visa or a EU work permit is A MUST

🇩🇪 Wir starten die Lese in der Woche vom 9. September. Wollt Ihr mitmachen? Schick uns ein DM!
★ Wir lesen fast nur Vormittags
★ 12 mal im Zeitraum von 3 Wochen
★ Minimum 2-3 mal bitte
★ Kaffeepause und Casse Croute am Mittag mit unseren Weine
★ Wir können auch die Unterkunft anbieten in einer Ferienwohnung
★ Du brauchst eine französische Arbeitsgenehmigung falls Du nicht aus der EU kommst

🇯🇵 収穫が迫ってきました！9月9日の週ごろに開始のかんじで、収穫隊を随時募集しています！
参加できる方、メッセージをお送りください。

＊ 通常は午前中のみです
＊ 3週間の間に１２回ほど収穫します
＊ 初心者も歓迎！最低2-3回の参加をお願いします。
＊ コーヒー休憩の中休みと、お昼解散前に軽食をシャントレーヴのワインと一緒にお出しします
＊ 宿泊施設、ご用意しています
＊ フランスまたはEUの労働許可証が必要です

16/09/2023

Aligoté « Les Chagniots » comes home ❤︎ Merci pour les belles photos ❤︎❤︎❤︎

05/07/2023

🇫🇷 Vendanges 2023
Voulez vous participer?
Envoyez-nous un message privé!

à partir du samedi 2 septembre
Principalement les matinées
Environ 12 matinées sur une durée de 3 semaines
Bienvenu même pour une seule matinée!
Pause café dans la matinée et casse croute à midi avec du vin de Chanterêves
Pour les étrangers, PERMIS DE TRAVAIL OBLIGATOIRE

🇺🇸🇬🇧 The harvest is around the corner ! Would you like to join our international harvest team? Send us a DM!

Starting around Saturday the 2nd of September
Mainly 4-5 hours in the morning
Around 12 half-days (mornings) during 3 weeks
Welcome even for one morning!
Coffee break in the morning and lunch at noon with our wines!
Working holiday visa or a EU work permit is A MUST

🇩🇪 Wir starten die Lese am Samstag den 02 September! Wollt Ihr mitmachen? Schick uns ein DM!

Wir lesen fast nur Vormittags
12 mal im Zeitraum von 3 Wochen
Wilkommen auch wenn Ihr nur Wochenende kommen könnt
Kaffeepause und Casse Croute am Mittag mit unseren Weine
Du brauchst eine französische Arbeitsgenehmigung falls Du nicht aus der EU kommst

🇯🇵 収穫が迫ってきました！9月2日（土）に開始、収穫隊を随時募集しています！
参加できる方、メッセージをお送りください。

＊ 通常は午前中のみです
＊ 3週間の間に１２回ほど収穫します
＊ 初心者も歓迎！　一回きりの参加でも是非
＊ コーヒー休憩の中休みと、お昼解散前に軽食をシャントレーヴのワインと一緒にお出しします
＊ フランスまたはEUの労働許可証が必要です

19/06/2023

« On prunung - Part 2 of 3 »

When in 2020 Chanterêves became a full fledged domaine of 4,9ha - with 4,5ha planted, we had neither manpower nor time to prune twice. In the Hautes Côtes parcels, we even asked a friend to come with his tractor at the end November to cut off the branch tips mechanically so that manually eliminating the branches after pruning will go swiftly. So much for not compacting the soil…. We are yet far from being ideally equipped and for certain mechanical work like mulching the grass in Hautes Côtes, we still have contractors come to get it done.

One of my first hopes, after Guillaume joined me full time in spring 2022, was to go back to the old pruning practice, and also to prune only during the descending moon. (Farming in tune with the lunar calendar, by the way, isn’t a discovery of Biodynamics but a very ancient one.).

This year, the spring came slowly. We scrapped the mechanical pre-pruning in Hautes Côtes. We checked the long term weather pattern to decide how much we could prune in 2 steps. In the end, out of 4,5ha, we pruned 1ha - 2 parcels of Aligoté of Hautes Côtes which are our latest ripening vines - in one go but the rest we did it in 2 steps, and almost only during the desirable moon phases. Except one Friday afternoon on the 7th of April it was a lunar node and I had forgotten it. We were giving the final cut in Hautes Côtes de Beaune blanc « Les Monts de Fussey » and it hailed. The buds hadn't broken yet but were bulging, and the hail chipped away something like one bud per cane.

18/06/2023

« On Pruning - part 1 of 3 »

Seems a bit out of sync to touch upon this when it's already June, but as we go through the growing season and witness the differences it makes depending on how we carry it out, thought it nice to write down a couple of things.

Since 2016 we growers in Côte d’Or have been dealing with spring frost risks more or less every year. We know that later we prune later will the buds break and so less the damage when frost hits. But how late can we wait to prune? The theoretical best is to prune as soon as the sap restarts to rise as Spring approaches, something like late February to early March, but then we need to get on with it very quickly, because the vines will keep directing energy to every single bud. More buds they need to nurture and longer it takes to eliminate them by pruning, and it becomes increasing taxing for the vines as time passes. If we wait so long that buds start to break, vines will start to lose vigor. Experiments carried out by the Chambre d’Agriculture de Côte d'Or even found out that pruning too late can even compromise the fruit-set.

The tradition has an answer to this conundrum: vignerons used to prune in 2 steps. In the first round, ideally from January onwards before the sap starts to rise, they choose a future cane and a spur (or 2 spurs if we prune guyot poussard) and eliminate all other one year old branches. The branch for a future cane will be kept unpruned and the future spur will be trimmed down to 3 to 4 eyes. Then in the 2nd round - most often in March - we prune those two with a desired yield in mind. This way the 2nd round of pruning will go fast, and as a result we avoid compromising the vigor.

I used to prune this way when I was taking care of my « vignes en tache » - manual work of 2,3 ha of 3 lieu-dits at Chandon de Briailles. For the first round, I could not wait until January though. I started late November so that I could finish the 2nd round « taille definitive » late March. At that time I did it more for the vine health rather than to mitigate frost damage.