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Citizen-vines: to be loved, to dance, to love

28/01/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The weather has been clement, holidays are over, and out in the vineyards, the steady snip-snip of electric pruning clippers fills the air, now emptied of migratory birds gone south. I will go home to a fine oaked Syrah tonight, ready after four years maturing and bottle-cellared. First, though, a walk through the vines. The […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: Kellenberger, Love never dies, pruning, Syrah, Vin d'Œuvre

October and March shake hands

08/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Tonight we will eat the last of our 2018 pumpkins, stored in the cellar since October. Yesterday the frogs arrived and began courting like mad in the pond while high in the trees the Alpine woodland larks began their melodious courting calls.

Filed Under: Garden & nature Tagged With: Braeburn apple tree, frogs, Graubünden, helicopters, lark, maple tree, mating, Miège vineyards, pond, pruning, Roman Hermann, singing bird, weeding

Winespeak: vine body parts

14/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

It’s high season for pruning vines in Switzerland, the job grape growers say determines whether or not they will have the best possible grapes. I spent a chilly afternoon learning to prune vines.

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Wineries Tagged With: grapevines, Kellenberger, pruning, the landscape of Swiss wine, Vin d'Œuvre, vineyards, winter vineyard work

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