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Vineyard Clinics at Tierra Roja

If you love wine, maybe you have enjoyed visiting wineries and learning about how wine is made.  Have you driven through the vineyards and admired their beauty?  Are you interested in Viticulture and how vines are managed?  Would you like to get your hands dirty and actually tie, prune, sucker or thin some vines?

Join owner, Linda Neal, in the care of the vines of Tierra Roja.  This year Linda will be putting on Vineyard Clinics at the various seasons.  The wine always tastes best when you have shared in the process.  Linda will share the experience of 20 years managing vineyards throughout the Napa Valley.   

The next clinic will be April 16 - 18. 

 Download the sign-up form and fax it to 707-944-2597 or call Linda at 707-944-8720 or email her. 

Tying & Pruning

The February 2008 pruning and tying clinics were a lot of fun.  Check out some pictures shown below.  If you participated, be sure to send me your pictures so that I can share them. 

Below are photos and info from the taping of "In Wine Country." Hostess, Mary Babbitt, and the folks from La Toque and Press Restaurants, participated in a pruning clinic.    Go to www.inwinecountry.com where those interested can sign up for an email notice of subjects of each week’s show.  The Tierra Roja Vineyard Clinic will probably air in late fall to early winter.

The next clinic will be April 16 - 18.  We will be shoot thinning, which involves selecting the most desirable canes and removing excess growth (also called suckering).  Additionally there will be a “trade only” Vineyard Clinic the morning of the “Taste of Oakville”, April 28.  Contact Linda Neal directly for your invitation. 
 

On February 7, 2008, NBC's "In Wine Country" came to Tierra Roja for a Pruning Clinic.

Along with hostess, Mary Babbitt, wielding shears, are wine country professionals from LaToque and Press Restaurants here in the Napa Valley.

 

Read Mary Babbitt's article about the pruning clinic -
 in "Wine Country This Week"


Executive Producer, Mary Orlin and Cameraman, Mark Oltz, filming Hostess Mary Babbitt interviewing Tierra Roja Vineyard owner, Linda Neal.

Erin Sullivan, Scott Tracy, and Mary Babbitt.

Each participant made a name tag for their own vine.


Andrew Wycoff, Lacy Hughes, Charles Kimball, Zoe Hawkins, and Mary Babbitt wait while Linda Neal prepares the tags

Mary gets a safety lesson
Having mastered their Safety Lesson, Allison Yoder, Charles,  Arnel Salvatierra, and Paul Thomasian plan to select a vine.

Up we go to the vines!

Sadly, the photos end here as we went to work. All participants pruned their own vines and we finished with mimosas at the house.
 
Tanya, Trece and Art Kinberg, owners of Wine Street, a wine shop in Carlsbad, California, at the pruning clinic.

 

 If you participated, be sure to send me your pictures so that I can share them!
   

 

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