Ep 133: Planting your own vineyard with wine writer Christina Rasmussen (Part 2)

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This is Part 2 with wine writer and speaker Christina Rasmussen and we are discussing planting your own vineyard and the decisions that you can make. Christina has planted her very own vineyard in England. So, we will talk about the soils, choosing massal selection over clonal selection, diseases and viruses and vines, grafting your own vines onto rootstocks, grape varieties such as Mondeuse and Pineau d’Aunis, trellising on stakes, high density planting, and so much more. And Christina will be explaining all her reasons for why she has made her decisions, which I just found fascinating, and I hope you do too.

If you want to skip ahead:

1.39: Why Christina planted her vineyard in Oxfordshire, England

3.49: Why plant Massal Selection rather than Clonal Selection?

7.53: Hand grafting V mechanical grafting

10.54: Planting Savagnin grape

11.21: Planting Gamay and Trousseau grape

12.20: Pineau d’Aunis grape variety

13.41: Mondeuse grape variety

15.19: Planting each vines on their own stake

18.58: Planting high density

20.58: Using natural treatments on the soil such as Horsetail ferments and avoiding sprays

23.19: The experience of physically planting each vine in a vineyard

26.35: What Christina has learnt about planting a vineyard

28.35: Inspirational wine friends who have helped Christina on her journey

MENTIONED ON EPISODE: THE ARTICLE DISCUSSING VINE MATERIAL AND VIRUS:

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