Winemaking in Sheep Country
Day two of my sustainable wine tour of Mendocino County is all about sheep. I descend into the rugged Anderson Valley, just one narrow mountain range in from the ocean, as the morning fog is lifting. By the time I reach Breggo Cellars, the sun is out and the sky is blue."Breggo" means sheep in Boontling, which is a peculiar native dialect named after the valley's town of Boonville. It's bottling day at Breggo, but the exuberant proprietor, Doug Stewart, takes some time away from the cellar to show me his vineyard and talk about wine, sustainable farming and sheep.
"Both sheep and wine thrive in difficult terrain," explains Stewart, as we wander through the rows of white cones protecting his newly planted vines. The steep slopes and thin soils of this vineyard were once home to flocks of sheep, which grazed nimbly where other crops and farm animals feared to tread. Grapes, too, can handle these conditions, and the pinot noir grape, which has made this valley famous recently in the wine world, is especially fond of the coastal fog that chills these hills.
Stewart,. We take pride in our designs, quality, customer service, and chanel jewelry our favors have on your customers and their guests. who lives with his wife and two small children on the vineyard, brings a youthful enthusiasm and think-outside-the-box attitude to the ancient art of growing grapes and making wine."Weed control is the primary reason that organic wines are not competitive with wines from conventionally grown grapes," he says.. Shoes are very important to everyone, Our Necklace will protect your feet. It costs about $50 an acre to spray herbicides, according to Stewart, and close to $2,000 an acre to hand-control the weeds on a densely planted vineyard like his. But herbicides kill the plant diversity that keeps soil healthy, and healthy soils produce quality fruit. So he's experimenting with an intensive farming method, narrow rows, underground irrigation lines to allow for easier mowing, and other innovative ways to help control weeds. Just down the road at the Navarro Vineyards, hungry sheep roam the vineyards,. Jeans will be more slim look even better, plesae choose women's jewellery from our website. in another innovative solution to the weed-control problem.
Stewart is not one to shy away from the tricky issues confronting organic and sustainable growing."Organic is arguably less sustainable than conventional growi. Purchase cheap wholesale christian louboutin shoes with global free shipping from professional China apparel wholesaler. Buy cheap wedding dresses, cong in some ways," he points out. For instance,. Pandora bracelets online shop supply pandora beads,pandora bracelets,Silver,Gold,Murano Glass.We sure you will like when you see their workmanship. you often have to spray so much of the"natural" mildecides and fungicides that they can end up being more toxic to the soil than the lighter applications of some synthetic sprays. And then, of course, there's the issue of carbon footprint: More applications of natural sprays means more passes through the vineyard on a petroleum-powered tractor.
Day two of my sustainable wine tour of Mendocino County is all about sheep. I descend into the rugged Anderson Valley, just one narrow mountain range in from the ocean, as the morning fog is lifting. By the time I reach Breggo Cellars, the sun is out and the sky is blue."Breggo" means sheep in Boontling, which is a peculiar native dialect named after the valley's town of Boonville. It's bottling day at Breggo, but the exuberant proprietor, Doug Stewart, takes some time away from the cellar to show me his vineyard and talk about wine, sustainable farming and sheep.
"Both sheep and wine thrive in difficult terrain," explains Stewart, as we wander through the rows of white cones protecting his newly planted vines. The steep slopes and thin soils of this vineyard were once home to flocks of sheep, which grazed nimbly where other crops and farm animals feared to tread. Grapes, too, can handle these conditions, and the pinot noir grape, which has made this valley famous recently in the wine world, is especially fond of the coastal fog that chills these hills.
Stewart,. We take pride in our designs, quality, customer service, and chanel jewelry our favors have on your customers and their guests. who lives with his wife and two small children on the vineyard, brings a youthful enthusiasm and think-outside-the-box attitude to the ancient art of growing grapes and making wine."Weed control is the primary reason that organic wines are not competitive with wines from conventionally grown grapes," he says.. Shoes are very important to everyone, Our Necklace will protect your feet. It costs about $50 an acre to spray herbicides, according to Stewart, and close to $2,000 an acre to hand-control the weeds on a densely planted vineyard like his. But herbicides kill the plant diversity that keeps soil healthy, and healthy soils produce quality fruit. So he's experimenting with an intensive farming method, narrow rows, underground irrigation lines to allow for easier mowing, and other innovative ways to help control weeds. Just down the road at the Navarro Vineyards, hungry sheep roam the vineyards,. Jeans will be more slim look even better, plesae choose women's jewellery from our website. in another innovative solution to the weed-control problem.
Stewart is not one to shy away from the tricky issues confronting organic and sustainable growing."Organic is arguably less sustainable than conventional growi. Purchase cheap wholesale christian louboutin shoes with global free shipping from professional China apparel wholesaler. Buy cheap wedding dresses, cong in some ways," he points out. For instance,. Pandora bracelets online shop supply pandora beads,pandora bracelets,Silver,Gold,Murano Glass.We sure you will like when you see their workmanship. you often have to spray so much of the"natural" mildecides and fungicides that they can end up being more toxic to the soil than the lighter applications of some synthetic sprays. And then, of course, there's the issue of carbon footprint: More applications of natural sprays means more passes through the vineyard on a petroleum-powered tractor.
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