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Phenomenal rate of growth, Jacksparrow. Lookin' good .

Ten days on and the vine is looking for height

Can't get over how quickly it grows !
We're all becoming keen viticulture-watchers . Hang on a minute ...... who actually treads the grapes ??!!

Here is the vine today. Reaching for the stars. I have had to curb it's ambitions to the left and will soon need to stop it getting much taller as it can be affected by the wind.

The vine today. I have been lopping off bits and bobs to keep it in it's corner and keep it low.

Can taste it now .......

Placido wrote:Can taste it now .......

It'll be a few weeks before I can estimate the number of bottles. There will definitely be grapes but the quantity is open to question.

Nearly a month since the last update and the vine has not stopped growing. The photo shows it after two or three prunings. Happily the grapes are growing too.

Does it continue to grow down the other side of the wall ?? If so, who lives there and is that adjacent chateau for sale ??

Phenomenal growth - this unending sunshine must be good for a premium crop of extra-juicy, sweet, large grapes, leading to a full-bodied wine with an extra-specially fragrant, full-bodied, lingering bouquet.
Not that I know anything about it .

The other side of the wall is the chateau's walled garden (well, partly walled and the remainder fenced )
If the warm weather persists we may have an early vintage . The earliest recorded was in August but is more usually in late September. The
grape variety does not produce large grapes but lots of sweet little ones with pips.