A Fool and Forty Acres: Conjuring a Vineyard Three Thousand Miles from Burgundy

Heinricks, Geoff (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0771040547 / ISBN 13: 9780771040542

Published by McC Lelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2004

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Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 08 07 06 05 04. Author relates his move from Toronto to Prince edward County, the history of his new domicile and his struggles to, " create a world-class wine." 275 pp. plus Acknowledgements. Unclipped, plastic protected, DJ has miniscule top edge wear. Inscription: (by fo in black sharpie) To Murray ______ / a county treasure for / restoring a county treasure, / (by author in blue ink) with Kind Thanks, / Geoff Heinricks SIGNED by author. Seller Inventory # 004522

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Fool and Forty Acres: Conjuring a Vineyard...

Publisher: McC Lelland & Stewart, Toronto

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Wesley Bates (DJ)

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: True First CDN Edition, 1st Printing.

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Synopsis:

foreword by Jamie Kennedy

A Fool and Forty Acres is Heinricks’ beautifully written account of leaving behind the rat race, slowing life down, and establishing an intimate relationship with one small parcel of land in a magical corner of Canada.

You won’t find Prince Edward County on any map of the world’s great wine regions. Yet it is to this dollop of rolling limestone in eastern Lake Ontario that Geoff Heinricks brought his young family in pursuit of a dream of creating a truly world class wine. The County, as the locals call it, is a long way from the Niagara Peninsula, and three thousand miles from Burgundy, yet Heinricks and a few hardy souls like him claim that their wines will one day rival those of the legendary French province.

A self-described 21st-century peasant, Heinricks follows the seasons in his vineyards with exquisite attention, from digging the earth, to grafting and planting the vines, to trellising and pruning, to tending the young grapes, to harvesting the fruits of his labours. Along the way, he sketches the human history of the area, the native peoples whose tools and clay shards are heaved up by the soil, and the United Empire Loyalists, whose tidy barns and farmhouses still dot the landscape today.

He also presents a cast of his colourful County neighbours: from old-school farmers to refugees like him from the city, convinced in the wisdom of producing and consuming locally the very best food and wine in harmony with the land.