Daily Archives: January 27, 2013

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Sarments and the life cycle

The vines look a bit of a mess after the taille.  The pruners cut and move on down the row, leaving the sarments (vine shoots) tangled helter skelter in their web. Danté and I woke this morning to a scattering of snow and found that an elf had come through and tidied it all up. The vignerons call this tirer les bois  -“pulling the wood.” (And they move cautiously since it’s easy to poke your own eyes out.)  The job is to untangle the sarments from the frame-wires that the tendrils curled themselves around in the spring.  They are then laid out […]