“Oh no…. go away!” I yelled as a flock of hundreds of starlings swooped through our vineyards. I guess it’s time to get the electric fences up and bird control in operation! So this weekend the tractors were quiet. The most important vineyard job right now is critter control. I went to town and picked up […]
I remember when we bought our first tractor. It seems like a long time ago, when I had only the foggiest notion of what a three point hitch is. The ad exclaimed that the deal included a grape hoe and full tank of diesel for only $9,500. It sounded like a great deal, and so the Zetor was
The first purple berries of veraison appear, as the grapes start to ripen and change colour. Exciting times in the vineyard: we can start planning for Harvest. It also sparks a flurry of activity as we rush to deploy our netting, bird control, and electric fences to defend against the little critters that love our
The hammock beckons. On a breezy sunny Sunday afternoon in the County, it can be tough to head back to the big City.
Something new this Saturday morning – Micheline is packing up cases of Chardonnay and Pinot X2 and carting them to Toronto. We’re opening a booth at the Withrow Park Farmers’ Market in Riverdale. It’s a beautiful park to visit. So if you need some locally grown wine to pair with your fresh organic veggies, come on
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Last Sunday we took a break from tending vines and closed the gate so no one could come down the lane. The talented & bubbly Jill Promoli had arrived to shoot family photos. It’s something we always wanted to do and never seemed to find the time. At one point we contemplated using “Trois Soeurs”
Against all common sense, we’ve decided to plant more grape vines! So right now, we’re soaking the roots of 3000 new Cabernet Franc and Pinot Gris vines in water. James Wiens came from Niagara this week with his big planting machine to put ’em in the ground, but the rains came and the clay soil
It’s not a weekend out at the vineyard without something breaking. This weekend I was happily weeding my grapes with this piece of equipment, an Ostraticky grape hoe. Driving up and down the rows with the hoe is mind-numbingly slow: there are 68 rows and it takes 5 minutes a row. After a few hours
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Three of our wines are now VQA approved! Pinot Noir 2013, Pinot X2 2013 and Chard 2013 (the Chard is still subject to label approval — a tiny tweak is necessary — but passed the VQA taste panel and the laboratory analysis). We don’t have labels printed yet but what the heck, we thought we’d let
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