Finally, the choice of a mechanical harvest or a manual harvest belongs to the grower.

The machine is on average three times faster than hand picking and therefore less costly.

Knowledge has also expanded, which allows achieving quality equal to a manual harvest.

With manual harvesting, we can ensure a last, but absolutely vital, qualitative sorting.

Organic farming, manual harvesting and trimming, small yields, ploughing and mechanical weeding.

The hand picked harvest is transported with care to the cellars in Nuits-Saint-Georges.

Manual harvesting, followed by de-stemming and gravity discharge in the fermentation tanks.

Here, the latest innovations blend with ancestral techniques, such as manual harvesting.

We have for the first time this year, invested in a sorting table which served us both for the manual and machine harvest.

The inert gas injection of manually or mechanically harvested grapes is never total and implementation is still complicated and costly.

To achieve the same result with manual labour, about 40 to 60 workers are needed.

A careful selection of grape bunches is carried out during the manual harvest and the later vatting, without the use of mechanical elements.

After a manual harvest, the grapes are placed in small, 20-kg boxes that are transported, refrigerated, to the winery.

After the harvest, which is very selective and carried out by hand, Protos Roble briefly ages for 6 months in American oak barrels.

After manual harvesting, vinification (with natural yeasts, as with all of the estate’s wines) is carried out in 600-litre demi-muid barrels.