The world is opening after the months of lying hidden inside buds and roots. Here in the Okanagan, this is what the grapes are looking like this week…

However, there are some grapes that are a week, easily, ahead. Take a look…

All it takes is the heat from a stone. A larger stone, a bit more in the open? Two weeks ahead…

Now, isn’t that intriguing. We don’t really need expensive vineyard land in select microclimates, with expensive systems of poles and trellises. We could do this, pretty much anywhere we liked …

God knows, there are enough rocks around. Exciting!