The relatively small block of Opus One Cabernet sauvignon vines, on the corner of Hwy 29 and the Oakville Crossroad, was in the process of being pruned this morning. A solitary vineyard worker, to my right, was busy removing last year's growth. I could hear the trellis wires twanging, like some giant untuned guitar, as he yanked at the stubborn shoots, with their vice-like tendrils, to remove them from the trellising.
It made for a very pastoral scene (if one could just ignore the busy traffic a couple of hundred yards away), and I wished I was at home pruning in Vinoland.
It made for a very pastoral scene (if one could just ignore the busy traffic a couple of hundred yards away), and I wished I was at home pruning in Vinoland.
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Yes Vinogirl, being here in the Vinoland vineyards plucking the wires would be good indeed. Pruning should not be a spectator activity this time of year.
The only spectators out in the vineyard have been the Vinodogs. The whites are pruned...on with the reds.
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