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de Layon
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| Petit
Bonnezeaux |
Pruned
vines but the growth on the ground looks rather untended |
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forest of twigs and branches - vines not yet pruned |
Pruned
vines. The wiring gives a peculiar and shiny impression of the vineyard |
A plot
of land where the vines have been pulled up for replanting, close to
Notre-Dame-d'Alençon |
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Chinon
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| Fairly
young vines (5 years?) |
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different wiring system: two wires high up, close together, and one wire
on mid-height |
Wide
spacing, lots of grass between the vines. Another reason to leave the
grass to grow is that it makes it less muddy |
A boat
on the river la Vienne, in Chinon |
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Bourgueil, St Nicholas de Bourgueil
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| One
end of the Chinon castle, dating from Henri II |
The
other end: the one fully intact tower remaining |
A
Cabernet Franc vine in Saint Nicholas de Bourgueil pruned with one
branch for this years growth plus a very short one |
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An
older vine |
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| You
can see each year's cut: the last one fresh, the one from the previous
year (behind it) a bit older, etc |
Sometimes the branches (sarments) are left on the ground to give
nourishment to the soil |
A very
young vine with one small branch |
Here
you can see why it is said that vineyards benefit from being on a slope.
This is not inundation from the river. It is simply water that the soil
does not absorb |
Vines
getting their feet wet |
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Mechanical harvest: it leaves the stems on the vine and collects only
the grapes |
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Vin de
Bourgueil |
Pierre
and Catherine Breton has become quite famous for their excellent
Bourgueil 'en bio-dynamie'. Pierre Caslot (Domaine de la Chevalerie) las
makes good Bourgueil and has some very impressive, immense cellars |
Winter
pruning in rainy weather |
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| The
tank on the tractor is pressurised air. It is connected to the secateur
with a long rubber tube that mechanises the pruning a little bit (it
pneumatically cuts the branch) |
Lonely
and cold work in the vineyard in winter time |
A
young vineyard |
There
are different ways of protecting the newly planted vines. Here they used
bits of plastic tubing normally used for building work, or maybe a
special version for vineyards. Others use upturned empty, plastic
bottles for mineral water |
A view
over the vineyards down towards Restigné |
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Saumur
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| Hail
in the vineyard. It can be violent |
Chateau de Langeais |
The
Domaine Filliatreau has an impressive troglodyte "chateau" close to
Saumur. |
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