So far I am very very pleased with this new gadget. My 2gb SD card works great and the transfer rate between it any my pc is awesome. The video quality at 640×480 at 30 fps is excellent. The file extension is .MP4 and is immediately playable on my notebook with quicktime installed. File size is ok for short web video shots. I can upload the video directly the web and playback without encoding using my pcplanets.com site. Here is the very first, unedited video I have ever took…it’s very shaky as I am just messing around…you’ll have to hit play to view it.

To illustrate the growing supply demand imbalance present not only in the Yadkin Valley but apparently in Virginia as well, take a look at the email I just received listing grapes for sale versus grapes wanted. Pretty crazy. No one publishes a list like this in the Yadkin Valley, so I don’t what it’s like around here.

2006 GRAPES FOR SALE:

Cab Sauvignon 10+ Tons
Cab Franc 8+ Tons
Chambourcin 8 + Tons
Chardonnay 5+ Tons
Merlot 8+ Tons
Petit Verdot 5+ Tons
Sangiovese 5+ Tons
Other varieties at smaller amounts
Bulk Wine of several varieties
Barbara Carpenter (Westmoreland Co.)
804-224-8687
Carpenter@inglesidevineyards.com

Syrah 700 lbs.
Cabernet Franc 900 lbs.
Cabernet Sauvignon 800 lbs.
Merlot 200 lbs.
John Everson (Fauquier Co.)
(540)364-1627
springlot@aol.com

Chardonnay clone 96 5 tons
Michael Kelley (Pittsylvania Co.)
434-335-5737
mich@pmtnet.net

Norton 1.5 tons
John Rick (Powhatan Co.)
804-598-8315
jfrick@johnricklaw.com

Niagara 5 tons
Chardonnel 4 tons
Sharon devault (Campbell Co.)
434-993-0561
devaultsharon@hotmail.com

Cabernet Franc 2 tons
Pat Benedikt (Albemarle Co.)
(540) 294-1456
nbpt@ntelos.net

Vidal Blanc (late harvest) 1 ton
Petit Verdot 2 tons
Cabernet Franc 3 tons
Merlot 2 tons
Bob Ramsey (Nelson Co.)
(571) 643-1692
abramsey@erols.com

Chardonnay 2 tons
(will trade for Chambourcin)
Jimm East (Rappahannock Co.)
540-987-8020
jimmeast@earthlink.net

Muscadine 15 varieties
U-Pick or order Picked
Baker Miller, Virginia Beach
(757) 421-9161
y_baker@msn.com

Cabernet Franc 4 tons
Lennie Tierney (Powhatan Co.)
804 379 6478
ltier@verizon.net

Cabernet Franc 10 tons
Edward Baskerville (Dinwiddie Co.)
804-586-8720
bwbaskerville@aol.com

Catawba 8 tons
LaCrosse 5 tons
Cayuga White 0.7 tons
Stephen Rose (Mecklenburg Co.)
434-636-4372
Rosemontvineyard@aol.com

Merlot 1 ton
Dean Triplett
Gsvineyard@aol.com

Cabernet Franc 2-3 tons
Cabernet Sauvignon 2-3 tons
Merlot 1-1.5 tons
Robert and Megan Weary (Albemarle Co.)
(434) 296-7414
roundaboutfarm@hotmail.com

Chambourcin some
Lew Parker (Loudoun Co.)
(703) 777-8161
Willowine@aol.com

Cabernet Franc 3.5 tons
Melissa Suters (Bedford Co.)
(540) 890-4197
(540) 580-8545
shadygrovevines@aol.com

Syrah 6-8 tons
Nebbiolo 4 tons
Cab Sauvignon 9 tons
Sauvignon Blanc 5 tons
Dave Collins (Loudoun Co)
540-668-6299 ext. 205,
Custom Winemaking Available
dcollins@breauxvineyards.com

Norton 10 tons
Marshall Molliver (Halifax Co.)
(434) 349-1000
mem@molliver.org

Riesling 1 ton
Cabernet Franc 5-10 tons
Jim and Nancy Benefiel (Frederick Co.)
(703) 729-4609
jwbenefiel@aol.com

Chardonnay 6 – 8 tons
David L. Lanier (Sussex Co.)
(757) 899-7401
RUSSELITA32@wmconnect.com

Tannat 10 tons
Tinta Cao 10 tons
Mourvedre 10 tons
Syrah/Shiraz 5 tons
Cabernet Franc 10 tons
Touriga Nacional 10 tons
Mike Heny (Orange County)
(540) 832-7440
henlucy@aol.com

Chambourcin 8 to 10 tons
Pandit and Sudha Patil (Rappahannock County)
(540) 937 – 6613
(703) 861 – 1122
Kadgaon@cs.com

Merlot 15 tons
Cabernet Sauvignon 2 tons
Cabernet Franc 7 tons
Dornfelder 6-8 tons
Duane Coghill 804-443-3706
Floyd 804-493-1230
OBelievers@aol.com

Home winemakers
Cabernet Sauvignon 250 lbs.
Cabernet Franc 250 lbs.
Chardonnay 200 lbs.
Will provide crush if requested
Kim Pugh (Isle of Wight Co.)
757-357-2841
757-676-5945
sumrwind@visi.net

Bulk Wine
Cab Franc 1800 gal
Merlot 500 gal
Farfelu Vineyards
Contact: Caroline Osborne
(202) 966-4744

Cabernet Sauvignon 1000 lbs.
Robert Poertner
Mandan Creek Vineyard (Franklin Co.)
757-647-5066
rvpoertner@hotmail.com

Syrah 2.0 tons
Ryan Lonnett
Shirland Vineyard (Fauquier Co.)
703-402-8069
ryan_lonnett@hotmail.com

Villard noir 3.5 tons
CP Jamison
Warrenton VA (Fauquier Co.)
540-341-2767
cpjamison@adelphia.net

2006 WANTED TO BUY:

Viognier 7 tons
Cabernet Sauvignon 11 tons
Jeanette Smith (Floyd Co.)
540-869-5188
jeanette@vinesmith.com

Vidal 2 tons
John Puckett
(540) 439-3707
johnpuckett@hughes.net

Niagara 1 ton
Bob Carlson (Washington Co.)
276-623-1255 phone
276-623-0125 fax
bobcarlson@hughes.net

Various varieties 100-500 pound lots

Jen and I took a couple pics of our first, real copperhead today. Now that the temps are cooling down a bit, they are coming out on the roads to warm themselves. Today I saw a three foot long black snake and a two foot copper head that had just been run over by a car. Here are the pics:

I want to start doing some video blogging. However, I really wanted a camcorder that could record in MPEG-4 to a 2GB+ SD card. After much research I decided to try out the Sanyo VPC-CA6. I almost splurged for the HD1, but I’m not sure I need it yet and I’m not sure how much quality difference there would be after the video is run through an encoder. The VPC-CA6 is new, just out and it does support the SDHC 4gb+ format…not usre if it supports FAT32 for regular “SD” cards that are 4GB, but on a couple of boards they said that the c6 would read the 2gb 133x OCZ SD cards, so I ordered one of those… I might get it by Friday, but probably next week sometime.

Here’s a pic:

I have stopped posting personal stuff, but thought this was pretty good stuff, you have to hit the play button to view it and you must have quicktime installed.

As I expected, I returned home to no grapes. The fruit wasn’t very good anyway..this time it wasn’t deer but birds that did me in! I know this because deer tend to strip and leave a mess, birds pick everything real clean…I mean there wasn’t even 1 or 2 berries left! Pretty funny.

Quite a bit of work left to do this fall…more trellising work and some rework of existing trellising….hope to get some seed down soon, as well as one more very good liming this fall. We also are going to completely fence the entire perimeter…it’s just more work than it’s worth to have motion detectors, etc. and ultimately while they work, they don’t work 100%. I need to keep the deer out period. I’d rather clamp the fencing to the posts by the road and when I need to mow or spray, just unclamp it, roll it up, mow and then put it back in place….it’s the only way to keep the deer out and avoid all the damage like I sustained this year.

Next year, I was going to buy a sprayer, but now I am thinking of trying to find someone who might do mobile spraying..they’d just have to pull up, take 30 minutes to spray and then go on to the next vineyard…that would be cool. If anyone is in this business, please call me at 612-501-2548.

Next year I’ll have to buy some bird netting as well I guess…should be a good year…I learned a lot this year and right now my grapes are disease free!!! No downey mildew yet!

Brent

I won’t say I told you so….but you can read all my posts about this in the past 24 months….. duh!

By Sherry Youngquist
JOURNAL REPORTER

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