A Year in Paarl
A I Perold's
A Treatise
on Viticulture
A I Perold (1880-1941) was South Africa's first Professor of Viticulture and Oenology. He dedicated himself to improving the quality of grapes for wine, brandy and the table. He studied wine and brandy production in Europe, imported more than 60 varieties to the Cape and bred new ones. Perold said this book “is intended to serve both the student and the practical grape-grower. There are in it technical passages that will appeal more to the student, e.g. the chapters dealing with the biology of the vine, its external and internal morphology, the theory of grafting. My remarks on the practice of viticulture, such as those dealing with the propagation, manuring and pruning of the vine, the production of table grapes for export, will, it is hoped, assist the practical grape-grower as well as the student.” This is a newly typeset reprint, not a photocopy. Text on the 712 pages have been aligned to match the original pagination so any external references to pages in the Treatise will be valid in this edition
Available in paperback and hardback editions. 712 pages
with
A I Perold
Dr Perolds report on his Paarl experiments 1915 - 1916 reprinted with glossary, introduction and brief biography. Fascinating historical document on viticulture for wine and table grapes, wine and brandy making.
Today we parked by the River Lea bridge on Waterend Lane and took footpaths to the Ayot Greenway, then towards Hatfield. we turned off to take a footpath at Saul's Wood where there were swathes of bluebells
and across fields, through woods, and a short way along roads till we came to the imposing gates of Ayot Montfitchet
but how to get through?
There's door in the left pillar, and so on till we came back to the Ayot Greenway and home to a restorative coffee.
Detail on gate.
To ASDA Watford this afternoon for our second Covid-19 inoculation. Again it was speedy and slick.
Photo courtesy of Joan
Long walk today, from our house up Harpenden Road then through Childwickbury Village
and past Childwickbury Manor (above), home of Christiane Kubrick, widow of film director Stanley Kubrick who is buried in the grounds, and on to Batchwood where bluebells were in flower, then home.
Austria was the 13th country we visited on our lockdown world tour, and which dish says Austria more than Wiener Schnitzel?
In the past I have thinly pounded veal escalopes, floured egged and bread-crumbed them before frying, but veal seems to have fallen out of fashion. As Waitrose didn't have any, these escalopes and rosemary fried potatoes came from DavVero in the quadrant.
2018 Familie Mantler Zweigelt Classic (Austria, Weinviertel)
Zweigelt is the second most grown variety in Austria, behind Gruner Veltliner, and thus is the most grown red variety. It was created in 1922 by Fritz Zweigelt who crossed Blaufrankisch with Saint-Laurent.
With easing of Lockdown and 'the rule of 6 outside' we went on a circular walk led by Sue and Peter Chasney.
From Flamstead we walked over fields to Markyate, the crossed the busy A5 to the old A5, just a single car's width, back towards St Albans.
When it re-joined the A5 we crossed and took a footpath through e the 27 acre Majestic tree nursery up the hill back to Flamstead.
A regular walk from our home down beside the railway line to Beech Bottom Dyke. The path winds under this tree which looks spectacular in full blossom
Then along to top of the Dyke, which is covered with bluebells, though they are not yet in blossom.
And up through Soot Spring Wood to Long Spring Wood
Dan & Krisie start a weeks holiday in a narrow boat today. They toasted their first night in Brecon with La Gioiosa rose Prosecco.
Bright clear afternoon with a crisp wind. Walked for this first time this year from Wheathamsted to Leasey Bridge then part of the way along the old railway line by the River Lea and back.
