Friday, October 5. 1979
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Personal vineyard fulfills dream
Bv ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Reporter
With a sense of pride known only to an artist who had toled loyalty from planting to bottling, Robert Gilmore sid back a door and dislusted the results of his efforts.
Row upon row of bottles of wine rested horizontally in the crisscross racks that reached from floor to ceiling in the winery in the basement of his Alvamar Hills home.
Gilmore said it would be at least a month before those bottles would be opened for tasting.
Lining one wall of the winery was a counter covered with bottles of white wine undergrowing fermentation. Underneath were fewer larger bottles concealed by paper
"Ninety percent of the world's wine should be consumed within the first year," he said. But he added that wine produced in France could remain stable for several years.
Por Al米伦, who has a PhD. in Latin American history, the wines aging in the wine cellars of Porto Alegre several years from his five-acre vineyard south of Lavergne and the initial plot in the city.
The cultivation of wine grapes is a primitive art known to date back to ancient Roman times. Gilmore carries on that art here.
Gilmore's hands have spent most of their 66 years turning pages of textbooks and writing dissertations—labs befitting a Ph.D. holder.
But for the past eight years, he has been raising granes and making wine.
Although it would be easier with machinery, as a neighboring farmer has told him many times, Gilmore prefers to do it by hand.
DETERMINED TO USE the manpower
Gave him. Gilmore sunk the 1,900 grape
stakes into the soil of his five-acre vineyard with a 10-oound sledge.
The growing of grapes and the production of wine has been Gilmore's desire since he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.
While a student there, Gilmore discovered a girl he met at an alma mater produced in the famous Napa Valley area. It was at that time that he promised she would somehow have his own vipard and jacket.
Moving constantly, Gilmore was unable to fulfill his dream until he and his wife, Juliet, settled in Lawrence in 1968.
The backyard of their home became his first field. And in 1975 he purchased a small wheat field and turned it into a vineyard.
I JUST STARTED reading and went from there." he said.
In his vineyard, Gilmore has 40 varieties of red and white grapes, all of European origin.
Famous names, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Bourdoue Rouge and Cabernet Blanc adorn the posts at the end rows neatly snacked in the vineyard.
"Most of my vines are mixes, French vines that are grafted onto American roots. The best wines come from mixes," Gilmore said.
Gilmore purchased cuttings from Ohio, New York and Maryland to begin his vineyard.
"The cuttings are all crosses between well-known European vines and American."
The vines can be purchased in the form of a cutting (stem) for grafting purposes, or as one-year-olds that are ready for planting, he said.
GILMORE SAID he had learned a lot from experimenting with the vines.
"Usually a vine will not bear until the
Despite a small crop this year, Gilmore's seven-month-long efforts in the field matured into a small, but rewarding harvest that he completed last week. The harvest is brought into its basement where a second stage begins, the art of making wine.
third year. I had one vine that didn't bear for seven years.
"The tighter packed soil around Lawrence affects the growth of vines and it usually takes most vines a longer time than three years to bear."
Amid the winenaking materials of empty bottles, plastic fermenting buckets, pots and other containers for stages of aging, resting the essential tools of the art: the grape grinder and the wine shaker.
**BOTTHE RED AND THE WINE** glays go to the oven, and the red wines go to the red wines I ferment them in the containers before pressing, but I press the white glands first and then allow them to ferment in glass.
The winemaking process varies for white and red grapes, Gilmore said as he moved
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Now that the year's harvest is in and the grapes stored safely in the winery, Gilmore enjoys walks in his home vineyard where he sees apples and pear trees surround the miniature vineyard that has been abandoned for another winter. It is there that he can remember the team of acquiring a vineyard in winemaking that came to realize all that he has attained.
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