The Field

Blending in extremely well

IT’S a tricky business this winemaking lark. You might think that all you need to do is plant a vine, water it, wait for the sun to shine, the grapes ripen and then pick them, press them, ferment the juice, bottle the result and, voilà, Bob’s your proverbial.

Well, yes, that’s it in essence, of course, but it’s a whole lot more convoluted than that. What vines do you plant and where? How do you train them? How do you harvest

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