One of the most common questions I get: “Don’t you want to make wine and be a winemaker?” The answer, of course, is no. Winemaking not only involves more stooping than writing, but the hours are worse and you have to put up with wine writers. Talk about thankless.
But my recent excursion into blackberries, courtesy of Dallas’ record-setting rain this spring, made me realize viticulture is more interesting than I realized.
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