Yesterday storm O despair ...

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The first storms followed the first warm days ... In places, the vineyards of Sancerre, hail (without too much damage, given the early stage!) Has chu ... in places 25 mm of water in a quarter time!

In the steeply sloping vines (> 30%), some plots were again relieved of hundreds of tons of good soil which went towards the streets of villages in the form of infamous mud, after having been mixed with rainwater! In neighboring plots, not a bit of erosion ... natural grassing (however limited so as not to harm the vines in April and May) and the replacement of both herbicides and heavy plowing by pseudo shallow plowing dramatically improves soil porosities ...

And in addition, it significantly reduces the consumption of domestic fuel ... QED