The harvest in Champagne is under way. The first village to start picking was Montgueux down in the south of the region near the town of Troyes, but that's 100 kilometres south of Reims and Epernay and in this moire northerly areas they're not going to get started for a few days yet.
Typically the villages on the north and north-east facing slopes of La Montagne de Reims are amongst the last to start picking and in this short video, filmed in the Grand Cru village of Verzy, you can see why they need a few more days yet for the grapes to reach full maturity.
You'll also learn an easy way to tell a Pinot Noir vine from a Chardonnay vine.
Come back soon for more harvest news from Champagne
