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Spring Edition

June 17 2002

Today the pinot noir and the chardonnay have started to bloom.

June 10 2002

Finally we are getting some growing done.

After a long cold and miserable spring we are having a lot of warm weather and the vines are responding, bloom is just around the corner.

The Canadian umbrella hat comes in handy on very hot days .

April 2002

-AS THE OLD SAYING GOES-

"If you don't like the weather in Ontario stay for a while

and it will change."

The first picture below shows the Leamington Dock blanketed with

 3 inches of snow April 6.

The second picture shows apricot trees at the Euro Farm in Harrow in

full bloom with the temperature at a record high of 28 C on April 16

Below: Its Steve and Jean Fancsy of Wallnut Grove Vineyards, located on HWY 50

close to the Oxley Golf Coarse.

The picture shows the owners in their new vineyard ready for pruning, and looking forward

to their first crop.

Above is a great contribution illustrating the reseeding ice pack.
  Is that a drop of water forming on the bottom of that icicle

Spring is finally here!!
Illustrated above are two great photos of the vineyards after pruning and tying of the vines.

We are ready to go...Spring is finally here.

We are now entering the third week of June, and the fields are coming along nicely.

At a critical stage of the development, each individual berry in a grapebunch comes from one individual little flower.
This year the bloom is about 4-5 days late due to the less than perfect weather in May, but now with the heat over the last week the bloom is progressing in high speed.

Can you smell the fragrance flowing from the vineyard. Is it a citrus like smell, like lemon.

First to bloom is always BACO NOIR, followed in about 4 days with chardonay, and at the end cabernet sauvignon.

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