What seemed unthinkable just a few years ago in one of the Pened\u00e8s region\u2019s coldest and highest-altitude areas is now an undeniable reality. Harvesting began this Thursday, 20 August, in our high-altitude vineyards in Pla de Manlleu, at around 700 metres above sea level, marking some of the earliest harvest start dates ever recorded in the area. <\/p>\n
Traditionally, the Pened\u00e8s high-altitude vineyard plots have benefited from much slower ripening and a marked temperature difference between day and night, which delayed ripening and, consequently, the harvest until well into September. This year, however, persistent high temperatures and several summer heatwaves have drastically accelerated the vine\u2019s growing cycle, bringing the start of the harvest forward to mid-August in order to pick the grapes at their optimum ripeness. <\/p>\n
A thermal refuge under pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n Harvesting in Loxarel\u2019s vineyards in Pla de Manlleu has begun with Sauvignon Blanc, but it is also beginning to narrow the window for harvesting indigenous varieties that were traditionally picked at higher altitudes from mid-September or early October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What seemed unthinkable just a few years ago in one of the Pened\u00e8s region\u2019s coldest and highest-altitude areas is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,81,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodynamic","category-outreach","category-the-harvest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loxarel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}