Classics.

If you ask most people for red wine grape varieties among the top five will be Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. Pinot Noir is said to be one of the most difficult and demanding grape vines you can grow, at  least for growing the best quality grapes for use in the best quality wines.

Yet it likes cool climates and commercially it is one of the most widely planted varieties in this country going into some of our world class sparkling wines.

My Pinot Noir grape vine is healthy and growing stronger every day. I have thinned the shoots down to two, one for spare that itself will be stopped in a couple of weeks so all the available strength goes into the one remaining shoot.

Cabernet Sauvignon on the other hand cannot be ripened outside in this country so I have mine growing in the greenhouse. The last time I posted a picture it was at the bud swelling stage.

Look at it now, a vigorous healthy shoot. It has found in the greenhouse a real home from home.