Earlier this week, we started the wine harvest at Son Alegre in Santanyí. In the lead-up to yesterday’s August Full Moon we harvested our white grape – Chardonnay, the French grape variety. The grape picking started at sunrise in the early hours of the morning to avoid the hot temperatures later in the day.

We shall harvest our Malvasía grapes, the traditional Mallorcan variety, in a few days time.

Our red grape varieties, Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, will probably be harvested during the second half of September, depending on nature, the grapes’ state of maturation, the weather, and good fortune.

This year we celebrated the sixth year of wine harvest at Son Alegre. All our vines were planted in 2004 and in 2010 we were able to harvest our first grapes.

We will be processing our new wines in our very own bodega for the first time ever, hooray. More about that in a separate blog entry.

Salut. Y hasta la vista.