No sooner had I mentioned that our Galician summer had been very dry, than the rain started. The good news so far, is that the amounts have not been catastrophic, and have only served to give our vineyards the watering that they so desperately needed.

I’m sure I have mentioned before that Spanish holidaymakers tend to take their holidays in “quincenas” – fortnights in English. This in itself does  not appear to be so unusual, except that they tend to stick to a very rigid timetables – either taking the first two weeks of August, or the second two weeks, and rarely exploring outside this format. Clearly holidaymakers taking the first two weeks of August 2015 have fared much better than those taking the second. In fact, from a sunbathing point of view, the second quincena has been more or less a total wash-out, not that it’s been raining all the time, but more that the sun has not appeared too much. The temperature has also dropped during the last couple of weeks – the average daytime temperature has been hovering between 20° and 25°C (68° – 77°F).

To finish on a more positive note, our fruit is still healthy, and the forecast is good for the beginning of September. We believe that if the forecast warm, dry weather continues, then we have quite high hopes for the vintage.No sooner had I mentioned that our Galician summer had been very dry, than the rain started. The good news so far, is that the amounts have not been catastrophic, and have only served to give our vineyards the watering that they so desperately needed.

I’m sure I have mentioned before that Spanish holidaymakers tend to take their holidays in “quincenas” – fortnights in English. This in itself does  not appear to be so unusual, except that they tend to stick to a very rigid timetables – either taking the first two weeks of August, or the second two weeks, and rarely exploring outside this format. Clearly holidaymakers taking the first two weeks of August 2015 have fared much better than those taking the second. In fact, from a sunbathing point of view, the second quincena has been more or less a total wash-out, not that it’s been raining all the time, but more that the sun has not appeared too much. The temperature has also dropped during the last couple of weeks – the average daytime temperature has been hovering between 20° and 25°C (68° – 77°F).

To finish on a more positive note, our fruit is still healthy, and the forecast is good for the beginning of September. We believe that if the forecast warm, dry weather continues, then we have quite high hopes for the vintage.