I spent several hours in the vineyard yesterday tying up the vines in advance of Hurricane Don's arrival in Ireland. The tropical storm spent several days meandering around the Atlantic before briefly becoming a Cat 1 hurricane, the first of the season. It's already dissipating but due to head toward Ireland, so I'm being cautious.
I was delighted to see how the grapes are progressing and how many we are going to have this year if all goes well. Even the Albarino are coming on better. The young Solaris vines have large bunches of grapes, the way I expected them to look.
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| Rondo |
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| Solaris |
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| Rondo |
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| Pinot Noir |
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| Young Solaris |
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| Apples |
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| Delivery |
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| It is convenient to offload inside |
Alex ordered the materials Dmytro spec'd from PJ Kelly's who delivered them first thing Monday morning because Friday's deluge caused them to beg off. It arrived just in time at 9:30 as we had the men scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM on the first day.
Meanwhile, Ukrainians Dmytro and Alexander have started building our winery room in the shed. They made great progress in just one day. I can visualise it all now. It's going to be insulated and temperature controlled. A clean room within the shed. It's all perfectly proportioned now. I can't believe we actually had this built.
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