Young Vines & Champions League glory…
Checked in this morning on our newest estate vineyard – Azana Vyd. in the Chehalem Mountain AVA. We won’t harvest our first tiny crop from this site until 2011, but the 2nd-leaf vines are coming along nicely. We planted it last year with Biodynamically grown starts from the nursery at Momtazi Vyd., and all are looking healthy and strong. And the view doesn’t suck from up there either…
Looking south over Block 2 at Azana
Many of the plants are knee-high or better now. All the hard work of hand-watering the baby vines, and our Biodynamic sprays are paying off, it seems. I’ll keep you up to date as things develop out here. We’re starting to plan a nice party deck that we may have ready for next summer up at the top of the vineyard…
A healthy young vine at Azana
In the meantime, I’m celebrating Arsenal’s convincing 3-1 thrashing of Celtic today in the Champions League – now we’ll fuind out who we get in the group stage – the draw is on Friday morning…
Updates and pics from Maresh tomorrow, where veraison is moving rapidly along. And here are some of the Arsenal boys, celebrating in style at the Emirates today…
