As part of my Favorite Places feature I’ve been keeping track of a vineyard here in Sonoma County, California. It’s about a mile from where we are staying at our son’s home. It’s truly a beautiful area with vineyards everywhere.
This year, while we are here, my goal is to see how these vines go
from bare vine to leaves and grapes and then turn into wine.
I’ve actually been following this one particular plant. Here’s what it looked like a month ago.
As we were driving along the road two days ago we could immediately see the changes. What a difference a month makes. All along the lower edges of the leaves we could see a section of dark colored grapes.
The grapes are still very small but they have changed into a very dark blue – almost black hue.
Aren’t they beautiful?
It hardly ever rains during the summer months. To keep the vines moist, the vineyard keepers install “drip lines” along the bottom of the vines. Set to timers, the water flows through these pipes and slowly drips a drop of water ever few seconds. It’s just enough to keep the vines looking lush and the grapes filling with juice.
I don’t know what we’ll find next month when we look again at “my” vine. But it must surely be getting closer to harvest time. I hope you’ll join me next month as we take a look.
I was excited on our wine trip this year that I could actually taste the difference between wines from the two regions we visited – (proving we go on too many wine trips!!!)
I am so enjoying this blog series. I am anxious to see how big the grapes become before harvest.
The grapes are just gorgeous!
Everything looks so lush and the grapes do look beautiful.
I love this series too! Next time you go to visit your other daughter in Oregon, you should do a tour of the Willamette Valley vineyards. There are a lot of very interesting ones there as well.e Now that you’re an expert!
Are you going to do any tasting of finished wines from that particular vineyard?
Those grapes are beautiful! I love watching ‘my’ wine in all of it’s stages.
what an interesting process–I’ll have to pay attention to it’s finishing up stages. Thanks so much for stopping by while I’ve been absent. I believe you asked about my daughters color choices for her wedding. Red is her husbands favorite color and blue is hers, so they combined the two. It was a fun, bright, colorful color combination that worked well for a summer wedding.
Wow…they’ve really grown a lot haven’t they! Do you know what type of wine these grapes produce? I have no idea about wine at all…can you tell!!