Tagged with "old vines"

Now is the time for pruning in the vineyard and all around white vans litter the countryside with pruners methodically working their way through the rows using (for the most part), electric pruners.

How old is an old vine? 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, more? Actually it’s all rather in the eye of the beholder as there is no legal definition for the term vieilles vignes