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6 VINEYARD ANIMALS

Let’s start from an article by Lucy Shaw for The Drinks Business regarding 10 animals mostly used in the vineyards around the world, and then I will propose my 6 vineyard animals for  Italian wineries

 

Vineyard Animals: bees in Montalcino at Villa I Cipressi - Hubert Ciacci

Vineyard Animals: bees in Montalcino at Villa I Cipressi – Hubert Ciacci

by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

The English portal as always is a source of inspiration, I advise you to consult it often. The Drinks Business proposes 10 animals that, somewhere around the world, help mankind to keep the vineyards in perfect equilibrium.

In succession find geese, bats, Babydoll sheep, dogs, pigs, horses and mules, bees, armadillos, birds of prey and chicken.
Let’s ignore the bats, that after gifting us with the Corona virus I find even more off-putting. I feel it is best not to help them proliferate and most of all keep them away from human beings.
Dog too I fear are not a good idea. In Spain they use terriers to hunt the mice and rats. Here we could use the Maremma Sheepdogs to scare off wild boar and roebuck. The only problem is the aggressiveness of these dogs, which without a fence, might also attack people. But, once fenced off the vineyards it would be useless to get a dog to protect the grapes as the ungulates wouldn’t be able to get in anyway.

Vineyards Animals - geese

Vineyard Animals – geese

We shall also exclude pigs. In Australia they use a spurred cordon method that keeps the plant high so the small Kunekune pigs cannot reach the grapes, but the Italian breeds of pigs would be perfectly able to reach them. Regarding the armadillos, we shall not even consider them, apart from the problem in finding them; they also like to eat grapes.

So here is my list of 6 animals for the Italian vineyards:

 

GEESE IN THE VINEYARDS

In Chile the Cono Sur winery has geese and in total 1.000 birds in the vineyards to eat the parasites.

 

The 10 TOP wine stores in the world

Starting from the high tech location with acrobats who get the bottles flying, to the 55 km of underground tunnels, in this world you can find all sorts

Read for you by  Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Angel’s Wine Tower Bar, at Radisson’s Stansted Airport hotel London

Angel’s-Wine-Tower-Bar-Radisson’s-Stansted-Airport-hotel-London

Always up-to-date the British magazine The Drinks Business has found the top 10 wine stores, the most sensational in the world. Please do not imagine silent temples for rare and expensive wines …. No! To get into this list it is important to astonish, to be unique, glamorous, to be sofiticately beautiful and be unreachable….

It’s the blog Wine Meridian which has picked up the news from the other, and it has made me curious of the magical world of dream wine stores and now I will tell you about them inviting you to go and read the other two blogs which will fascinante you more and better then mine: