September 24, 2006
Languedoc.
Nina returns for the harvest. Seriously, if you are into wine or France, you need to hang out over on Nina's blog. Even if you abstain from wine and hate France, you might want to go there just because the colors purple and green are beautiful:
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I read her blog, however, for a Law prof, her essay was more of a musing than an intelligible chronicle of events.
I know more than a bit about oenology and viticulture. I found her seeming hope that it would rain confusing unless it was separate and distinct from her essay on the harvest. Rain in the last months of wine growing is bad, rain during harvest is very bad.
In the last trimester (borrowing another lexicon) you are looking to reduce water consumption of the vines which tends to dry the grapes up and concentrate sugars. As well as more rain means more clouds, meaning less sun, which is also not good.
Same thing at harvest. Rain, yields mud, making mechanical harvesting and moving wagon loads of grapes more difficult. Rain also encourages rapid formation of molds and rots on your ready to pick grapes. not good.
However, I very much enjoyed the photography.
Drill: Nina's writing is usually about something other than what appears on the surface, more like poetry. I haven't studied this one, but I'm guessing she's telling a story about her personal life and you have to try to imagine what exactly it is.
drill: Ah, so you think I wish for rain to make the harvest fail? I would be a poor guest at a winery if it were so.
Though indeed, it rained today, Sunday. A day of respite. The harvest has had such good weather that no one minded.
Not ever do I mean to teach people about winemaking on my blog. The fact that I am a law prof is sort of irrelevant.
My apologies.
I consider myself spanked.
:)
... by two incredibly cool female lawprofs.
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