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la gramiereCategory: Winery BlogsHome: www.lagramiere.com/blog/ Last post: 15 hours ago Subscribers: 0
Welcome to our French wine adventure in the Côtes du Rhône! We have just completed year one, in which we purchased vineyards, pruned them, farmed them, converted part of our house into a winery, and harvested the grapes. It's a small operation, with no employees, just the two of us, the occasional family member and some very good friends! Now the cycle begins again, come back often to see how it all unfolds.
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Last weekend I took a couple of days off to play. Well, and maybe to work a bit too, learn a bit, taste a bit, and to exchange ideas. The ...
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Fun with labels - redux
Ok, so here goes again, though this time it might be a bit worse! Remember two years ago when we were having fun sticking import stickers on all of the ...
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La Gramiere featured in a new book on organic wines in Germany!
And in German! So I hope it says nice things about us! Frank Kämmer, a master sommelier, discovered our wine earlier this year thanks to our German importer Martin Kössler. ...
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Slowly turning...
We've been spending time checking out the grapes lately, walking through each vineyard carefully inspecting the bunches to look for signs of anything wrong... Well, kind of. At this point ...
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New banner, can anyone help?
Ok, so I've just spent all morning making this new banner for the blog, but even after I followed the instructions (I think!) it still doesn't look right at the ...
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Some light plowing
Despite all of the rain we had in May, suddenly a couple of our vineyards are suffering from lack of rain. The French have a saying: "un binage vaut deux ...
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2007 vs 2008
Take a look at this: This is a picture of our Syrah taken last week on July 28th, no sign of color change yet! This was taken on July 18th ...
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Essential Vineyard Accessories
Spring and early summer vineyard work require you to spend a fair amount of time suckering, spraying, "Weed Badgering" etc. and there are certain items that I could not get ...
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Where to find La Gramière 2006 - Update
I usually hate it when wineries use their blog just to tell people where to find the wines, but I haven't done this in awhile, and we've been shipping to ...
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Pallets!
Ever thought much about them? Me neither until we started shipping wine to the US. We are required to ship each order on pallets that are specially treated according to ...
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