Wine Tasting, Vineyards, in France: Helda Rabaut (Chinon, Loire)The chai and cellar near Cravant. Switching career abruptly, Helda called wine schools in mid- august. Massey-Harris Farming (Part III): The Clipper Combine. As published in the July/August 2004 issue of. Civilized man has grown plants for consumption since 8000 B.C.E. Forty Years with the Massey Harris 22. As published in the March/April 1994 issue of. As was noted elsewhere (The Belt Pulley, January/February 1994, Vol. I am new to the world of smallholding. I have a small tractor but need to get round small trees and fruit bushes to remove/manage weeds and prepare patches of ground for planting seeds. The tractor is too clumsy for this sort. A FELONY AT HENDIDLEY. Taken from http:// Bebb the Plaintiff. Stephen Jones of the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society related some information he'd heard, describing Bebb as an. 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SPECIAL OFF-ROAD VEHICLES Terrastar, Landmaster, Delta Beetle,Toyota Idea Olympics, disabled Hirotoshi Hikota, Floting wheels of Straussler, Gato Arana, Elliptical wheels, LTSS, aichi airoll, Boisrault machine, Curtiss-Wright. The good thing for her is that she had graduated from high school with a Baccalaur. She chose the wine school of Tours for no reason in particular, just that it wasn't too far from Paris, but she stayed for better reasons. It was very interesting for her, she began to understand the complexity of the issues, including the technical ones. She says that the uncompromising commitment for quality with which Damien works at La grange Tiphaine had a lasting impact on her, and she understood that later. She also had a 6- month training at the Bourgueil Coop. There, she learnt about the sales to to supermarket sector, something she's not close to do now but with which she learnt the strict normative regulations enforced by this retail sector onto wineries. She was also working part time at another winery, Domaine de l'R (Fr. He told her he knew where she could buy grapes and he offered the use of his winery tools and containers to vinify at his place. She accepted and this was her first wine. Asked about the style of vinification she followed, if it was the one of Nicolas, she says that she had actually learned from Fr. Nicolas worked in the New World and received other influences there. Both winemakers work with organic grapes. She just had to insulate here and there and she close with wall a part of the barn to make more room because her facility right now is crazmped with bottle pallets. Visualizing all her new skills, I am amazed by her versatility and expertise, this is a long way from the law school.. She began to work for the Baudrys when she looked for more empoyment time in winter, and they offered her to work for them, as they knew here through the Domaine de l'R (Fr. Her first job there was tying the stem wood on Clos Guillot, not bad in your resum. The room is now cramped because of a couple of pallets, bottles waiting for the delivery truck. They're very convenient because she can work inside if necessary. The one here is was built in 1. Amboise Pressoirs. She cleaned the vats beforehand and she is happy to work with this type of container. Ripe nose with aromas of dark generous cherries, clafoutis. Bottled march 2. 0 2. SO2- added at the end of the malo and at bottling. Now she thinks that she could have avoided the SO2 on malo but she learns. At bottling there was probably 2. SO2 left. In the future she hopes to release the wines later and not need to filter. She made 3. 60. 0 bottles for this cuv. This vineyard has the same conditions and latitude than Les Gr. She had a 3- or 4- week maceration here. This wine was vinified in fiber vat at Nicolas but the 2. It allows her to concentrate on the important picking stage, where sorting is sometimes vital. On the nose, there are dust notes which I like. She says it's more open than when she last tasted it in Paris. I like more the substance in this wine. Helda says that for this 2nd vintage she changed a bit her vinification, knowing better where she wanted to go. One of the vats was obviously more on the fruit, round and supple and she devatted it before the end of the fermentation because she like the way it was at this stage, easy and pleasant. The other vat (from the clayish stripe in the 4. For the devatting, she asked her boyfriend to join and he helped her. She's obliged to get inside the vat, it's too deep and she has to be careful with the SO2. She brings a lighter with her and checks the flame, pausing from time to time. Tastes good, easy drink. She says that the whole thing is more on the fruit, maybe less on its terroir than in 2. This wine makes 1. She adds that there's something people begin to know, it's that the phenolic maturity and the alcholic maturity don't happen together, and it's not because the alcohol level is lower than aromas are not ripe. She didn't make a single cuv. So Helda will buy him some grapes too. This nurseryman/grower has very nice grapes on his 1. Since she's done some pruning for him last winter she had time to gauge the parcels and a few of them tempted her; now she knows that demanding wineries are also vying for his best grapes so she hopes to get a nice slice of his fruits. Having already grapes from gravel and sand on flat terrain, she told him she was looking for clay on slope, and she just needs something like 7. So if everything turns right, Helda should make wine from about 2 hectares at the end of the year. The vines are 7. 0 years old, that's another nice side of the deal and the soil is clay/flintstone. The cabernet franc there will be ideal for nice- structured, long . She doesn't plan in the near future to buy vineyards but if she warms to the idea in the next few years there should be many good opportunities because lots of growers/vignerons retire. Helda opened this magnum because the 7. She didn't want to put it in cask because in her mind wood must be used carefully but she had no place to put the wine, so she went to Bernard Baudry for some used casks and put her wine in there (the casks were 5 or 6 wines old). She also got a tonne (demi muids) from Nicolas. I feel more structure here i,ndeed, the soil makes indeed a difference. She sold 1. 20. 0 bottles in 4 days to professionals during a trip in Paris, so she was wondering if her professional prices weren't a bit too low.. She says that it made her sick to bottle and sell all her wines so she had decided to keep 2 casks full of Telle Quelle 2. She'll bottle it later and will name it Telle Quelle +, to differentiate it. She will also use a small machine from the Baudrys to cork the bottles. The wine is cold and needs to be warmed up in the glass. Seems less open now, compared to the one in bottle. We taste the 2nd cask. I like this 2nd cask better, it is straight forward, the tannins are more melted away in the end of the mouth. The guy wo worked here, Fr. I remember having bought one of his wines at le Vin au Vert in Paris. I hope he will bounce back somewhere. At Domaine Bernard Baudry, she is entrusted with the mission to take grape samples in the parcels for sugar, acidity and Ph levels. It's important that samples are taken along the same procedure and by the same person because it gives a regularity in the analysis year after year, making the data more reliable. She also knows where their many parcels (nearly 4. She says that it's a very convenient and simple press. At first she was skeptical about it, all this wood and so on, but it makes a very good job. There's an inbuilt program but she (and Fr. They just have to clean it thoroughly everyday when in use. She found another press for her so she'll not need this o,ne anymore, it's a smaller, 1. It's even in a better shape than this one, and second- hand, it costs nothing. First, Helda showed me this future cluster, consider that the whole thing covering the picture is the future cluster, and what she points to is what is called in french the rachis, it is the main flower of the inflorescence, it is located the base of the stem and it will carry normally 2. This one is normal, you see the tiny future flowers/fruits. At this season, especially if is rainy and cold, the grower will check directly this part of the future clusters. This cluster disorder makes the normally fruit- carrying rachis turn into a tendril, which turns in less fruit at the end. This is the sort of small detail for an unsuspecting observer but for the grower it means a drop in grape load that normally can't be caught up later. The grower has gotten it plowed recently, and we can feel indeed the sandy nature of the earth by taking a handful of it. In spite of the flat nature of the parcel, it's very draining when it rains and the grapes don't fill with water. As said above, she is doing also some plowings, and she learned to drive and manoeuver a tractor this year at Bernard Baudry, the nice thing being that they have different types of tractors, some being simple, older models like the one above, which are sometimes more fit that big modern tractors depending of the parcel. Overgrafting consists in cutting the dying vine under the ground level and grafting new wood over it. It is a new technique to counter the Esca disease which seems promising so far, and she's personnaly overgrafted many rootstocks for the Baudrys. This is also faster that just uprooting the vine and replanting. All the yellow- plastic protected baby vines we see here and there are actually overgrafts and Helda took away one of these plastic protections to show me the graft underground. The wood used for these overgrafts is wood from the year which has been taken from the healthy Chenin of the Baudrys and kept in a cool cellar. These wood stems have just been refreshed in water before the overgrafting. This technique has been intensified in Sancerre where the toll for the sauvignon is dramatic, and the technician (Fran. They've overgrafted 2. It's been plowed too and the vines seem older. The woods are very close and usually she doesn't get many grapes from the 5 first rows along the woods. This parcel makes 8. She loves this parcel and even if she just buys the grapes she hopes to do it for the years to come. In Paris her wines can be found at La Cave de Tolbiac, at le Siffleur de Ballon, at la Fine Gueule, at la Cave d'Ivry, at Fine L'Epicerie and at Au Nouveau Nez. Next year she may take part in Pierre & Catherine Breton's event in Bourgueil, F. She worked there this year, but just to help Fr. She says it's indeed a nice wine event. In the early 2. 0th century or even later, many if not most vineyards were planted with fruit trees scattered all over, this was before the mechanization of the vineyard work. That's a dream of a complantation and the result of an empirical way of doing things, nothing scientific here.
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