I spent yesterday morning taking a long walk in the Estate vineyard. Didn’t have to go far to find a few flowers — a very few — in the young-vine Pinot. Nothing yet in the older Pinot or any of the Rhône varieties. 
Now my hope would be for moderate, dry weather for the next couple of weeks to get us through bloom. From the forecast it looks like there is at least the prospect of OK weather: chance of rain and breezes through tomorrow, then warm and dry inland with onshore flow at the coast through the extended.
And here’s one we missed: we got nipped by a little frost in a small section of the Grenache and Counoise. 
So we won’t have to put so much work into crop thinning this year. We will make up for it next year — I expect the frosted vines to be extra hairy.
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