Wine with Leslie: Picking winners of the harvest

The 2022 wine harvest and autumn wine sales have already begun — here are some of the top picks

As the 2022 wine harvest gets underway, wine regions are expected to begin picking their whites and sparkling wine grapes next week.

The 2022 wine harvest has begun with grape picking already underway in the Languedoc and in California and many other Northern Hemisphere wine regions are expected to begin picking their whites and sparkling wine grapes next week.

I had a chat with Laurent Miquel who has vineyards in Corbières, Saint Chinian and other parts of the Languedoc, and he is cautiously optimistic. “Thank God for irrigation,” was the first thing he said — despite him and his Irish wife Neasa being on holiday with their kids here, his team is full at it picking their white wines since August 9 — some vineyards began in late July.