A Fool and Forty Acres : Conjuring A Vineyard Three Thousand Miles from Burgundy
Heinricks, Geoff; Kennedy, Jamie (forward)
Language: English
Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2005
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, CanadaAlex Simpson
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275pp., first paperback printing, signed with an inscription by the author on the half-title page. Small curl/creasing at corners, light creasing from page handling and an inked notation just on the reverse side of the rear cover. Wraps have light edge/rub wear, light creasing and a bookstore label on the rear panel. Actual book for sale pictured. 14 x 21.7 x 1.9cm, wt500g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- A Fool and Forty Acres : Conjuring A Vineyard Three Thousand Miles from Burgundy
- Author
- Heinricks, Geoff; Kennedy, Jamie (forward)
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- VG
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0771040563
- ISBN 13
- 9780771040566
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Seller catalogs
- Agriculture, Biography
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.
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Alex Simpson
Carrying Place, ON, Canada
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