After our crazy day on Monday, we are chomping at the bit to get started again – unfortunately, yet again, our weather refuses to co-operate. For the last three days now (it is Thursday afternoon as I write this) we have not really had too much rain, but just a few showers at all the wrong moments. We really need a dry canopy to work effectively – having a little extra liquid inside the berries is one thing, but we simply cannot gather fruit with water on the surface of the bunches. They stubbornly refuse to dry out, and just as they do, we have another light shower.

Remaining positive, the fruit is still completely healthy and the forecast is looking much better for the coming days. Everything being equal, we should be relaunching the 2016 campaign tomorrow (Friday, which will then officially become Day 2). We will know for sure when we open the shutters tomorrow morning.