Linden Update | April 2018

Terroir Project

Planting has started! The cuttings of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that we gathered over a year ago and sent to a nursery to be grafted and rooted are now back home in the form of young grapevines.

 Planting started last week. Each morning, shovels in hand, we dig holes every four feet under the trellised rows. The soil was ripped back last summer, so the digging is easy. Vines are meticulously planted by hand making sure the roots are spread out, the planting depth is correct and that the vine is positioned precisely under the trellis wires. We plant about 300 vines each morning. (This can be backbreaking work, so a half-day is quite enough!) By the end of the month Linden will have another 3,000 vines in the ground.

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Jim Law