[Growwine] Should an indigenous wine culture start with home viticulture?

[Doug Briden]

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Below is two articles, same vineyard, describing what Lon has
mentioned, downtown Manhattan. The second article done by the
Washington Post has some great photos. 100 bottles per year one vine,
concord. 

	http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/26/050926ta_talk_mcgrath
[1]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601362.html
[2] 

	Cheers, 

	Doug. 
 On Fri 07/03/08 13:49 , "Lon J. Rombough" lonrom at hevanet.com sent:
  FWIW, I've seen a Niagara vine planted in a 2 x 2 foot hole,
trained up 
 a building next to it, and that vine produced 1,000 pounds of fruit
a 
 year. Grapes are highly adaptable and it wouldn't be hard to get 
 similar results with something like Baco Noir. It's entirely
possible 
 to get enough fruit to make a good quantity of wine from a very
small 
 area, if you are creative in how you grow them. 
 -Lon Rombough 
 Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
 http://www.bunchgrapes.com [3] Winner of the Garden Writers
Association 
 "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003. 
 For even more grape lessons, go to http://www.grapeschool.com [4] 
 For all other things grape, http://www.vitisearch.com [5] 
 On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Ryan Daum wrote: 
 I think you hit on a key problem here: "a great many people do not 
 have the right kind of yardspace, or even enough space, to plant a 
 family vineyard". 
 I live on a 100'x25' city of Toronto lot. I'll never grow enough
from 
 my vines to make wine, only to play around with. I buy grapes from 
 Niagara each year, and like to make lots of it, but it's not ideal
for 
 me, I'd rather be more involved. 
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Links:
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[1] http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/26/050926ta_talk_mcgrath
[2]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601362.html
[3] http://www.bunchgrapes.com
[4] http://www.grapeschool.com
[5] http://www.vitisearch.com
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[7] http://lists.littlefatwino.com/mailman/listinfo/growwine
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