From rock to vineyard

    from the sound of the slate

    Weinberg

    domesticated steep slope

    A vineyard as a natural landscape? This only applies to a few exceptions, such as our winemaker friend Elder Nygaard, whom the Sioux in South Dakota allowed to enter their nature reserve and harvest the grapes from the vines that creep wildly on the trees. The "normal" vineyard is not a mountain at all, but rather a flat vineyard, created from former pastureland or fields. Only possible through more or less massive interventions in "nature" - whatever we mean by that.

    

    A meadow or arable land to plow, fertilize the soil, plant vines and protect it from wild animals by a fence is associated with work. Is a piece of agri-culture. Although the ambiguous term "culture" does not really want to cross the lips in view of the industrially laid out wine fields. it is important to point out In the social context of general romanticization of the good mother nature,


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    Nevertheless: a vineyard


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    the better: was associated with a lot of work, is easy going from our terrace perspective.

    

    

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