Quotes About Vineyards

Sunny Mildura is a real riviera oasis town – it's as isolated as anywhere you'll find in Victoria, but after driving for hours past parched farmlands, you're greeted by miles of fertile vineyards and citrus orchards and a prosperous riverside city centre.

"Others were saying, 'We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.'"

Winegrowing lore said rosebushes were planted to serve as early-warning indicators of sickness in the vines. They supposedly were also a leftover tradition from the days when horse-drawn plows worked the vineyards—the thorns encouraged the beasts to make wide turns and thus reduce the potential damage to the stakes and wires that supported the rows.

It was March in the Napa Valley, just under sixty miles north of San Francisco, and Joy Lammenais's favorite time of year. The rolling hills were a brilliant emerald green, which would fade once the weather grew warmer, and get dry and brittle in the summer heat. But for now, everything was fresh and new, and the vineyards stretched for miles across the Valley. Visitors compared it to Tuscany in Italy, and some to France

Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression.

minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save us. But some are darker, dangerous. If we allow them to, they control us. Seduce us. Quite possibly even destroy us. The moment I stepped into the mansion that is the centerpiece of the Reid Winter Vineyards and Winery wasn't one of those moments. Nor were any of the moments I spent weaving through

Just for a moment, she thought she smelled something, a strange, vivid scent of sugar and apples and blackberry jelly and smoke. It was a nostalgic scent, and for a second she could almost understand why Jay loved this place so much, with its little vineyards and its apple trees and its roaming goats on the marsh flats.

Autumn vineyards rolled up the hills in deep red lines behind my house.

This is why tourists come to wine country, not just to get tipsy from tiny pours of Cabernet Sauvignon, but to be inside this world, where every surface mirrors back the sun.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ëThe LORD will deliver us.í

But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.