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Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDomaine Taluau-Foltzenlogel Passion, Bourgueil, Loire, France 2022 (£15.75, Yapp) It’s wine harvest time throughout the northern hemisphere at the moment.
Things are looking up: early forecasts say the total Spanish grape harvest will be up by 20% this year.
Bonny Doon Cigare Volant, Central Coast California 2021, (£16, Tesco) Harvest challenges are not all about the weather.
In California, the chief concern among wine growers this harvest hasn’t been an absence of pickers, but an absence of buyers.
Many growers, as a result, can’t find a buyer for this year’s crop and are simply leaving the grapes on the vine.