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Continue reading →: Nut Season: ChestnutsIn addition to our vineyards, we also have orchards on our land. Both fruit and nut orchards. The fall is orchard season, especially with nuts. Today I am highlighting our chestnuts. Chestnuts are a tasty winter snack. Best roasted which also helps in peeling the hull. Chestnuts have a high…
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Continue reading →: Building FencesI do not like fences between neighbors. Or walls. They represent a breakdown of communication. A breakdown of détente. Of respect. I believe that border disputes should be handled with communication, with information and with agreements. Fences come up when all this fails, which represents a failure by one or…
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Continue reading →: Italian Riesling Harvest and Crush 2015While I have planted a significant amount of new Pinot gris and Tramini, until these have reached at least five years of age and able to produce a reasonable harvest, Italian Riesling grapes are still our single largest varietal grape by volume. Italian Riesling is also the last to ripen.…
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Continue reading →: stcoemgen.com Ranked 1st and 3rd at GoogleJust found out today that the images here at my blog for Piros Tramini come up as the first and third images on google.hu image search. All things considered, an American getting first ranking for something with a Hungarian association is not too shabby (as we Yanks might say). In…
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Continue reading →: Pinot Gris Harvest and Crush 2015We picked our Pinot gris this week. With a warm August the grapes were ripe, but we were letting them have some extended hang time to allow more fruit development and additional ripening for a superior final wine. But dewy mornings in the past week were putting Botrytis fungus pressure…
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Continue reading →: Turán (aka Agria) Harvest and Crush 2015After a very hot start to August, it was a cool August morning this week that we decided it was time to harvest our Turán (also known as Agria) grapes. It was a good harvest. The crush went well. And the young wine is already fermenting in our cellar.
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Continue reading →: Veraison 2015I have been reading that this year many wine growing regions have experienced early ripening (most evident by veraison, which is the color change of the grape berries) resulting already in harvests occurring earlier this year than in prior years. We had a rather mild spring and early summer, with…
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Continue reading →: Summer Cooking Is Outdoor CookingSummer is the time to cook outdoors. And that of course means cooking over a fire. And the tripod and pot over a fire (bográcsozás in Hungarian) is a traditional form of Hungarian cooking. The American cowboy will find it a familiar cooking method as well, given that the American and…
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