By Ellen Wallace – The vines are great any time of year, but it’s hard to do better than autumn, when the vine leaves are turning the hillsides into golden mazes, fermentation is in the cool air and skies are blue. One of my own favourite areas is beyond the famous Lavaux terraced vineyards and […]
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‘Tis the pruning season
From a distance there is something different about the stretches of vine across the hillsides. It’s hard at first to work out what has changed – the light? the color? You need to be closer, zooming in from the magnificent landscapes, to see that it is density: the vineyards are having their annual pruning session. […]