Yesterday, I went to pay for grapes I had bought during this year’s harvest—grapes that, in other years, I have made into some of my best wines. Driving home, winding down from the hilltop village, I passed other vineyards, olive orchards, fields sparkling in the sunlight. The scenery, though, did little to ease my disappointment. […]
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Last Friday, with a family birthday to celebrate, our old kitchen removed and the new one not yet installed, we reserved a table at a local restaurant. To be honest, I would usually rather eat at home: the wine list is better! And, in the summer and fall, nothing is more delicious than garden vegetables,
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Today it’s sunny, windy and cold, and although we need rain at this time of year, the weather is perfect for pruning. I only own a thousand vines—old vines with thick, twisted trunks that produce vegetation at waist level or above, so while I started pruning a week ago, I will already finish today, and
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Whereas for the past year or two, we have been delighted to find a glass of almost any wine in our hand come evening, these days, with vaccines, a somewhat milder Covid variant and a bit more freedom in our lives, expectations are on the rise. And now that wine lovers are back in wine
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