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| Albariño vines planted in 2019 - no roots! |
This week, we gave up on the Albariño. Alex started digging it up yesterday and finished today. The plants had very little in the way of root systems, clearly far less than we would have expected after three years in the ground. I potted up four that appeared alive and put them in the greenhouse. We'll see if they wake up.
We wonder if the issue was our land/conditions or the rootstock (labelled SO4) chosen for this Albariño. Alex has propagated the Ross House vine, which had survived here for at least 100 years, as a potential rootstock for the Albariño vines he rescued. Another experiment: we'll plant some in the polytunnel as is and we'll transplant some onto Ross House vine roots.
He dug up the remainder while I started planting the Rondo. We sourced the Rondo vines (25) from Thomas Walk. The soil was surprisingly nice and crumbly. Surprising ourselves, we finished up this afternoon. Job done. Now, the only issue is that we have no rain scheduled for the next week, and the vineyard does not have water, so we wait and see. At least the vines are in the ground and the ground is moist.
We had visitors again today. Dan Walsh and his son Eoghan, whom we know from American Yacht Club in Rye NY, stopped by while touring Ireland. It was very nice to reconnect and show them around the place.
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| Vines dug up |
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| Vines going in. |
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| Pitiful roots after 6 years in the ground |
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| Albariño potted in the polytunnel |
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