Sentence examples for crops of grapes from inspiring English sources
"Getting a permit in Chile now is probably more difficult than in Quebec and Ontario," says John McDonough, Barrick's boss for Chile and Argentina.Farmers worry that the Pascua-Lama project will raise the acidity of rivers whose waters irrigate export crops of grapes.
As winemakers have learned, carefully nurtured crops of grapes from ancient vines can produce profound wines, and no other grape is grown in so many old California vineyards -- some dating from the 1880's and many planted before Prohibition -- as zinfandel.
Nor has it escaped the notice of industrial-scale wineries that Grenache vines can sprout massive crops of grapes.
Also at that time, nearly 5000 acre of apple, pear, and peach trees were under cultivation; along with crops of grapes, prunes, potatoes, corn and alfalfa; and large vegetable and flower gardens.
All over Europe, in fact, crops of grapes used to make wine have had a bad season this year, causing the total French grape harvest to decline by 20percentt, including in the well-known wine-producing regions of Burgundy and Bordeaux.
South Africa's wine producers are expecting a bumper crop of grapes this year, but many couldn't be gloomier.
In the early 1980s, when Fetzer Vineyards canceled an order and left him with a bumper crop of grapes, he began making his own wines.
He knew instinctively how to trim back a plant, and his first crop of grapes was so bountiful that he and his wife, Melissa, thought that next year they would try to make wine.
And despite sporadic weather during the 2006 growing season, including heavy rains, hail storms in June and a particularly hot summer, the crop of grapes that arrived at the winery for sourcing were ripe and juicy, yielding this really nice vintage.
The traditional Mediterranean crops of wheat, grapes, and olives predominated until 1830, when improved transport allowed new cash crops to be taken to more-distant markets.
