Veteran grape grower Jim Murphy talks about vineyard lifecyles and machine harvesting. There will be several posts about the recently completed Wine Bloggers Conference out in Santa Rosa, but I thought I’d start with what was one of my favorite parts — the vineyard walk. We had several different vineyards we could walk/hike and after deciding to take the easy route and pick one of the flatter, shorter walks, I was harassed by two of my in-shape WBC friends (namely Erika and John) into joining them for the most strenuous one. In the end, I’m glad that I did… even…
