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Showing posts with label vineyards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vineyards. Show all posts
Thursday, May 20, 2010
I went to a book party last night and drank too much chardonnay, so I'm showing my grape picking ventures today...
October harvest in Riquewihr, Alsace, is one of the most beautiful anywhere. I got to stand on a hill and sling a pair of shears for few hours. My 'payment' - to sit at the long vineyard table and share a huge luscious lunch. Alsatian grape picking is a family affair. Every member shows up to help with les vendanges.
At Regaleali Vineyard in Sicily I just watched. The pickers sang, chatted, smoked, picked grapes in the most leisurely fashion. You can take cooking lessons here with Countess Anna Tasca-Lanza.
Napa Valley grape pickers don't walk.They race to get the job done.
In Burgundy they used to carry straw baskets/paniers on their backs. You'll find these at Fr. ebay. You'll find all kinds of wine-related goodies on ebay.fr. I should know. I used to spend hours and $ looking for still life objects and I've got a closet full of taste-vins to prove it!
19th century Bordeaux pickers...
Figures are more fun to draw than grapes...
I'm better at wielding a paintbrush than grape shears/secateurs. Some passerby on the Bordeaux La Route du vin insisted on taking my picture back in the day when I haunted the vineyards.Lordie...
Monday, August 27, 2007
When I visited the chateaux and vineyards in BordeauxI was knocked over by the profusion of stone lions everywhere.
No wonder! The kingly lion is sitting right on Bordeaux' coat of arms.
As well as guarding so many entry ways of the finest chateaux..
For example at Chateau Haut-Brion...
Now here's a funny thing...
Where I live, in Astoria, NY
(just 9 minutes from Bloomingdales on the N train
and the most multi-culti town in the USA)
there is a profusion of stone LIONS!
38th street is particularly littered with these stone lions!
Only between Broadway and 34th Avenue,
in case you should go looking for a pride or two...
This has set me thinking...
Have some Bordeauxoise winemakers moved to Astoria? ? ?
Will we soon see some vineyards springing up on my turf?
Did I mention that Bordeaux is also inundated with stone sphinxes?
The French sphinx has a coiffed head and the bust of a young woman.
Often she is wearing ear drops and pearls
and her body is naturalistically rendered as a recumbent lion.
Chateau Margaux has an impressive pair guarding their stairway entry.
Chateaux de Malle makes a lovely Sauturnes, well protected by
a brace of sphinx.
I'm wondering when, exactly an infusion of sphinxes are coming to Astoria?
As well as guarding so many entry ways of the finest chateaux..For example at Chateau Haut-Brion...
Now here's a funny thing...Where I live, in Astoria, NY
(just 9 minutes from Bloomingdales on the N train
and the most multi-culti town in the USA)
there is a profusion of stone LIONS!
38th street is particularly littered with these stone lions!
Only between Broadway and 34th Avenue, in case you should go looking for a pride or two...
This has set me thinking...Have some Bordeauxoise winemakers moved to Astoria? ? ?
Will we soon see some vineyards springing up on my turf?Did I mention that Bordeaux is also inundated with stone sphinxes?
The French sphinx has a coiffed head and the bust of a young woman.
Often she is wearing ear drops and pearls
and her body is naturalistically rendered as a recumbent lion.
Chateau Margaux has an impressive pair guarding their stairway entry.Chateaux de Malle makes a lovely Sauturnes, well protected bya brace of sphinx.
I'm wondering when, exactly an infusion of sphinxes are coming to Astoria?Could they please come to my street?
We could definitely use a few sphinxes on 31st Avenue :)
We could definitely use a few sphinxes on 31st Avenue :)
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