Every year since 1994, le vignoble du Marathonien does its winter harvest between December and January to get the best of their grapes. Each year, the result ends with two excellent products: The Ice Wine and the Late Harvest. Since 2011, we have been posting pictures and details of the cold day harvesting on Facebook. Just take a look !

Here are some pictures of the harvesting from 1996 until 2010:

Pictures description (from the top):
Pictures 1-2: Radio-Canada team filming la semaine verte. Harvest 1996.
Pictures 3-4-5: Harvest 2004
Pictures 6-7: Harvest 2006
Picture 8: Harvest 2007
Picture 9: Harvest 2008
Picture 10: Harvest 2009
Pictures 11-12: Harvest 2010

The 1995 harvest took place on december 9^th during a snow storm and in the presence of a National Film Board team who was making a short film. On this day, the temperature was between -14°C and -12°C. During the filming, the drifting snow made us understand that winter had really arrived… The images taken that day are unfortunately not available anymore.

An award winning product: This ice wine won its first bronze medal at Intervin International Competition in 1997 in Toronto.

Pictures :
1- The National Film Board team gets ready to film the  pressing of the ice wine.
2- The state of the grapes before harvest. It will be followed by the pressing of the first drops of this valuable juice.

1994 was our very first harvest of Ice Wine. A small experimental harvest that gave 30 liters of precious juice, harvested at the end of November, at a temperature of -8°C. This vintage gave us a density limit for the standard of Ice Wine. So we created a brand new product.

The first Late Harvest:

Commercialized as Late Harvest, this first vintage 1994 received really good comments. For this reason, we decided to expand slowly year after year, planting new Vidal plants and increased the production.