Long rows of Vignoles...

Close up of Vignoles from a distance, plus a few Norton right in front...

I think we'll be harvesting the Vignoles next week...

Taster B made a fish dish tonight with coconut milk, tomatoes, a little wine, basil and a smidge of chili pepper. Really good stuff. In true SLG fashion, the wine selection was left until last minute. We had a bottle of Jewell Towne Vinyard's Vignoles in the refrigerator. It is mid summer. Living by the Atlantic means humidity. In the time it took to come up with a photo concept...

Les Vignoles Saumur Champigny 2004 VENDOR'S PROFILE Price: $15.95 Vintages #: 662585 (Joe ... Les Vignoles Saumur Champigny , a red made from Cabernet Franc, is a particularly good example...

This is Dad picking Concord grapes that are misplaced in the Vignoles. They came from the nursery that way, and they are a real nuisance, but we can't machine harvest these rows of Vignoles until we pick these few Concord grapes...

This picture didn't turn out exactly how I wanted, or how I saw it in real life. I was trying to show the huge blue sky covered in clouds looking up the hill at the rows of green Vignoles below. Now the Vignoles look too dark. I guess if I knew something about photoshop or some other program I could alter this picture, but I don't so here it is in it's raw farm...

Brilliant idea. Why didn't I think of this? Think anyone would want to rent a row of Missouri Vignoles...

Blossom 2002 Riesling “Select Late Harvest” (Okanagan Valley) – Fat peach and soft apricot with sweet grapes and Juicy Fruit™ gum. Too fluffy and blowsy. (2/07) Anthony Road 2004 Vignoles Trockenbeerenauslese “Martini Reinhardt Selection” (Finger Lakes) – Grapey and quite acidic, with peach blossoms and clementines predominating. Simple, clean fun. Painfully sweet. (2/07...

... the harvestor today and I am furiously taking berry samples, mainly the Vignoles right now. I think we ... already in the Vignoles to wildlife makes me very sad. There needs to be a better solution. Maybe...