This post was beautifully written and beautifully illustrated, and what a wonderful success story it tells. We live in New Mexico -- in the United States -- and there are wine-growers where we live, too. Evidently the decomposed granite soil here is excellent for cultivating vineyards ... and every Labor Day week-end (usually the first week-end of September -- it's the week-end before the first Monday) there is a well-stocked wine festival at a little town about an hour and a half drive from here. So we really enjoyed reading about a counterpart in another part of the world -- one just as unexpected as "wine grapes in the desert."

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