It’s been a mega-busy week so far, but thankfully for all the right reasons – bottling wine, visiting foreign journalists, a flying business trip to Madrid and finally a wine seminar – all in the space of 4 days…. and there was me thinking that Galicia is a sleepy backwater of Spain! Of course that is the reason that there have not been any new posts on our blog for the last few days, it’s simply been an issue of time.

At the start of the week, especially as there was so much happening, I carefully studied the weather forecast (as is my obsession), and was quite please to discover that there was a positive change looming on the horizon. Monday to Friday would be the same as usual so far this winter – cool and wet, but with sun and significantly warmer temperatures promised for the weekend. Could this be the real start of spring?

Well, certainly as I write this post (on Saturday morning) the sun is not yet with us – it’s still wet and windy, albeit that the weather forecast is still saying that this is about to change. The experts are now saying that next week will be warm and very sunny – temperatures finally hitting the magic 20°C (68-70°F). After some very heavy rain storms in recent days (we were in Madrid on the day of the very worst), we are praying that a bit of warm sunshine will dry out the soggy vineyards and really start to push forward the growth of our vines. Indeed, I would expect that with all the moisture that we now have in the soil, combined with some sun and warmer temperatures, we might soon see some dramatic advances in the vegetation.

By the way, my photo today quite clearly has nothing to do with the weather, but was taken during a well-earned break for lunch at the Santiago Bernabéu, the home of Real Madrid C.F., and my first ever visit to the Stadium. However, as you can see, they still need sun lamps to promote growth on certain shaded parts of the pitch – perhaps that’s what we should have used in our vineyards over recent months!

It’s been a mega-busy week so far, but thankfully for all the right reasons – bottling wine, visiting foreign journalists, a flying business trip to Madrid and finally a wine seminar – all in the space of 4 days…. and there was me thinking that Galicia is a sleepy backwater of Spain! Of course that is the reason that there have not been any new posts on our blog for the last few days, it’s simply been an issue of time.

At the start of the week, especially as there was so much happening, I carefully studied the weather forecast (as is my obsession), and was quite please to discover that there was a positive change looming on the horizon. Monday to Friday would be the same as usual so far this winter – cool and wet, but with sun and significantly warmer temperatures promised for the weekend. Could this be the real start of spring?

Well, certainly as I write this post (on Saturday morning) the sun is not yet with us – it’s still wet and windy, albeit that the weather forecast is still saying that this is about to change. The experts are now saying that next week will be warm and very sunny – temperatures finally hitting the magic 20°C (68-70°F). After some very heavy rain storms in recent days (we were in Madrid on the day of the very worst), we are praying that a bit of warm sunshine will dry out the soggy vineyards and really start to push forward the growth of our vines. Indeed, I would expect that with all the moisture that we now have in the soil, combined with some sun and warmer temperatures, we might soon see some dramatic advances in the vegetation.

By the way, my photo today quite clearly has nothing to do with the weather, but was taken during a well-earned break for lunch at the Santiago Bernabéu, the home of Real Madrid C.F., and my first ever visit to the Stadium. However, as you can see, they still need sun lamps to promote growth on certain shaded parts of the pitch – perhaps that’s what we should have used in our vineyards over recent months!