A visit to the North Fork - and all that early rain

Lori and I spent four days out on the North Fork last week. Visited Old Field, Shinn, The Tasting Room, Wolffer, and Channing Daughters (and bought wine everywhere). Drove by the vineyard where we bought the 2008 Cab S. grapes and saluted.

Spoke to the folks at Channing about how the weather (soggy, soggy June) might affect this year's grapes. The answer is that since there is no fruit on the vines yet, there's no affect to the fruit, but it's been a great deal of work for the vineyard workers to prevent mildew and any associated problems.

I'd already noticed that there was no fruit on the vines (or just the nubs of fruit beginning on some). Very different than the Concord vine in the Brooklyn back yard, which already have marble-sized fruit, and lots of it.