Tag: vineyard

A vine for all seasons

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Vineyards always give great opportunities for photos with a definite vanishing point, no matter what time of year it is.

85 vanishing a

winter

85 vanishing d

spring

85 vanishing b

summer

85 vanishing c

autumn

For A Photo a Week: vanishing point.

Interesting (yet completely irrelevant) fact: In German, it’s an “escape point”, not a vanishing point.

More photos with more vanishing points can be found here.

Wine time

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It may be the first Sunday of Advent but I am not quite ready to let go of autumn.  Lines.  Rows and rows of growing wine – Riesling, Grauburgunder, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Shiraz … I love them all.   PS: Today’s Oxford Dicitionary’s Word of the Day is bibulous, aka: excessively fond of alcoholic beverages 😉

For One Word Sunday: lines.   More lineage can be found here.

Tonight’s forecast: 99% chance of wine

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An outing to Rüdesheim, where the

Rhine flows through the valley and

on both sides steep vineyards rise

up – and one ends the day

with a good meal together with

friends and a glass of  wine.

Or two. Or three. Or more.

For Six Word Saturday.  More six word musings can be found here.

From straight lines to round vats and clear glasses

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I’ve always found the rows of vines in a vineyard with a vanishing point in the distance make good photos.  We went on a wine walk yesterday – basically a stroll through the vineyards of one village with tents put up at intervals where one can sample the local wine and different kinds of food.  The weather wasn’t great but it least it didn’t rain and the cold was the right incentive to try out the more than 20 red wines on offer (not to mention the whites and rosés).  Not that the thousands of people needed much of an incentive!

More links to photos with lines in them can be found on One Word Sunday.

Press them to ripeness

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The ripe grapes, soon to be made into wine, embody autumn for me.  The first sweet grape must is being sold in open bottles (since the bottles would explode if they were firmely corked), soon to turn cloudy when fermentation sets in.  I love it at all the different stages before it is left to mature under the watchful eye of vintners.  The German term for harvesting grapes is actually “herbsten” which is related to “Herbst”, meaning autumn or fall.

The title is taken from one of the most famous poems about autumn in German, by Rainer Maria Rilke:

Befiel den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;
gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage,
dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage
die letzte Süße in den schweren Wein. 

Command the last fruits to be ripe;
Grant them another two more southern days,
Press them to ripeness, and with power
Drive final sweetness to the heavy grape.

for the A Photo a Week Challenge: Signs of fall

A Photo a Week Challenge: Signs of Fall