A few years ago I wrote, what I thought at the time, was a funny post about judging the ripeness of the grapes by when the boars started eating them. Last year when they pretty much cleaned out our roussanne vineyard on the eve of harvest, I didn't think it was so funny. So this year we are trying to protect the roussanne by putting an electric fence around the small half-acre vineyard. I took the video with my new i-phone, and I found watching it that it made me a little motion-sick. I'll have to work on my video techniques. But it sure was easy film and then upload!
As you may or may not know, virtually all of France goes on vacation in August, I may not have taken a real vacation, but as those of you who are still reading this blog have noticed, I took a vacation from blogging. Harvest will be starting as early as Thursday with the whites, so I'll do my best to keep the blog up to date, especially now that I have a fancy phone that will allow me to directly upload pictures!!
I keep my fingers crossed for you!
They already cleared out our early ripe Pinot and Côt grapes in spite of the electric fences...joined by a troupe of badgers probalely...it kept me away from blogging equally - it's much more easy to tell "funny" stories and vines with only stems left, where you materned grapes for months are a very sad picture...
Posted by: Iris | August 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Looks like a job for the mighty Elmo! Boar patrol.
Posted by: Andy | August 25, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Maybe we should outfit one or two of those French boars with some kind of a "Born to Swirl" t-shirt or something.
Ya know........Your videography is just the ticket!
Makes an excellent & informative post.
Keep up the great work.
(Gotta get me an i-phone).
Thanks for the post Amy.
Perrysburg,OH
Posted by: John | August 26, 2009 at 02:46 AM
does it help?
Posted by: Iris | August 28, 2009 at 06:52 PM
At least the boars would taste nice and fruity when you roast one to celebrate the harvest!
Posted by: Golly | August 29, 2009 at 02:13 PM