{"id":1035,"date":"2015-09-01T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-09-01T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:49:44","slug":"early-harvesting-at-chateau-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/early-harvesting-at-chateau-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Early harvesting <br> at Ch\u00e2teau Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first harvests in Pessac-L\u00e9ognan got underway as early as the end of August: after Ch\u00e2teau Carbonnieux and Ch\u00e2teau Haut-Brion, it is now the turn of Ch\u00e2teau Brown, which will be kicking off its grape-picking campaign on 1st September. Precision work in prospect\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sauvignon Blanc grapes will be the first to be picked at Ch\u00e2teau Brown, immediately followed by the Semillons. These two varieties cover all five hectares of white grapes on the 29-hectare estate.<br \/>\nCertain Merlots set aside for the Ch\u00e2teau\u2019s ros\u00e9 wine will also be picked this week.<br \/>\nThe remainder of the red grapes will not be picked before 20 September (compared with 7 October in 2014).<br \/>\nThe health of the crop is good overall and perfect among the reds. Jean-Christophe Mau, the owner of Ch\u00e2teau Brown, and his team are nonetheless wary of the rot potentially lying in wait for the Semillons, which have therefore undergone painstaking leaf-stripping operations in order to provide the grapes with optimal aeration.<br \/>\nThe damp month of August (more than 100 mm of rainfall) and the recent storms diluted the fruit somewhat, but fortunately the return of the sunshine in recent days has restored the concentration of the grapes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ever willing to share their passion and their expertise, the team at Ch\u00e2teau Brown will be welcoming several primary and secondary school classes during the harvesting, in order to pass on the latest advances in rational vine management to the future generation. A busy schedule ahead for both the estate and the schoolkids!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/vendanges-brown-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/vendanges-brown-2015.jpg\" alt=\"vendanges-brown-2015\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/vendanges-brown-2015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/09\/vendanges-brown-2015-382x509.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first harvests in Pessac-L\u00e9ognan got underway as early as the end of August, it is now the turn of Ch\u00e2teau Brown, which will be kicking off its grape-picking campaign on 1st September. Precision work in prospect\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}