Slow grapes

The vineyards call to me this time of year and this afternoon I HAD to go check to see how they are doing. WOW! We've heard about slow food, man, the grapes are dawdling this year. I was up on Westside Rd. in Healdsburg tasting some merlot grapes - SOUR! This is a hotter area of the Russian River so I expected them to be 'cookin' - I'd guess they have another few weeks and they're earlier ripening reds than the rest.

This has been a most peculiar year weatherwise - is this evidence of global warming that we try so hard to ignore?

Yet it is so beautiful! I am ever grateful to be living up here to witness Nature's splendor.

Happy Harvest!