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Rich Collins | May 2, 2011 | Full PDF Version  |
| New Hampshire ToDo |
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 On the west side of New Hampshire is a winemaker on a mission - Virginia Carter, owner of Walpole Mountain View Winery at Barnett Hill Vineyard. Virginia's operation is truly unique from the ground up: she's the only female viticulturalist, female enologist, and female-owned winery operation to date.
And to keep her on her toes, she has perhaps the most difficult climate of all the local vineyards to contend with. As a result, she has chosen to build her vineyard operation around the fact that only the strongest will survive - in this case, the grapes that are mostly cold hardy.... read more |
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| Meet Marechal Foch |
| Paul Eschrich | October 4, 2010 | Full PDF Version |
| The Hippo |
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 In June, I attended the first New Hampshire Winery Association “Live Free & Wine” Festival. At the time I noted that many of the wineries produce a red wine from the Marechal Foch varietal. Some wineries actually grow their own “Foch,” as it is often called, and others purchase the grapes and/or juice from farmers in New York
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Fast forward to September, when my monthly Wine Book Club selection was Jim Beauregard’s New Hampshire Wine. That presented the perfect opportunity to collect bottles of as many Marechal Foch wines as I could that were produced by New Hampshire winemakers... read more |
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| Wine & Cheese Trials 2010 |
| August 1, 2010 | Full PDF Version |
| Visit NH.gov |
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 Wine & cheese - and the growing list of restaurants and lodgings extending a special welcome to those who love them both - is an expression of New Hampshire's commitment to bringing the best from farm to table, a movement that is formalized in the Farm to Restaurant collaboration between growers, producers and chefs.
Visit New Hampshire and experience the culinary passion that is alive and well throughout the state. Below you'll find a NH wine & cheese itinerary as well as a printable wine & cheese brochure to help plan your trip...read more |
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| Harvesting Wine Grapes Photogallery |
| Amy D. | October 25, 2009 | Full PDF Version |
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 What a fun day I had picking grapes with Ting and Gail in Walpole, NH! We had the perfect day, sunny, cool and the best views anywhere. Virginia Carter, owner of Barnett Hill Vineyard in Walpole offers volunteers the opportunity to harvest the grapes she grows and offers lunch for your troubles. Only it's no trouble at all, the pleasure was all mine.
If you are interested in participating in the grape picking you can email her and sign up for a morning or afternoon harvest, Ginny provides all the supplies and instruction, no experience necessary. Her email is vineyard@sover.net. Unfortunately, you will have to wait until next Fall... read more |
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| Cold Climate Grapes |
| Kathleen Hatt | May 10, 2008 | Full PDF Version |
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 From a Web search of “cold climate grapes,” Carter discovered there are indeed varieties which will grow in Zone 4B. Many were developed by the University of Minnesota with the help of Elmer Swenson, a man whose life work was hybridizing French-American vines that could withstand temperatures of minus 30 to minus 50 degrees.
A variety called Frontenac, for example, is deemed hardy to minus 35 degrees. It is among the 28 varieties Carter has selected for her Walpole Mountain View Winery at Barnett Hill Vineyard...read more |
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| A Vineyard with a View |
| Sue Bingaman | June 17, 2007| Full PDF Version |
| The Walpolean |
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 Think you have to go to California or France to see a vineyard and a winery? And a spectacular view? Not so!
Right in Walpole, on a scenic southerly slope high on Barnett Hill, the newly developed Barnett Hill Vineyard commands a view of the Connecticut River Valley and half of Vermont. And, this year, produced its first vintage.
Only planted four years ago, the vineyard was conceived, researched, planned and executed by one ambitious woman: Virginia Carter. She has done her homework. She reads about wineries, attends workshops and seminars, visits wineries some in Napa and Sonoma, CA,consults with the UNH Cooperative Extension Service, and mentors under Peter Oldah owner of the award-winning winery "Jewell Town" in South Hampton, NH near the coast...read more |
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