SUMMER 09
P R I N C E E D WA R D C O U N T Y A N D Q U I N T E C O U N T RY L I F E S T Y L E S
For the Love of Pinot Noir Five Gables
Anderson/Davidson House revealed PRICELESS please take a copy home
Mysteries of the Marysburg Vortex SUMMER 2009 COUNTY & QUINTE LIVING
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In tHis Issue For the Love of Pinot Noir – by Bruno Francois,
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Dining in the Great Outdoors – by Cynthia Peters,
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Summertime Picnics
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Kayaking in the County – by Bernie Gray,
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Art - Something to shout about – by Lisa Longworth, Black Bear Ridge Golf Course – by Jodie Jenkins, Five Gables – by Robert Karp,
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Anderson/Davidson House
Canada’s Bermuda Triangle – by Steven Petrick,
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The Marysburgh Vortex
Walking back in time – by Peter Lockyer,
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Gallows and Graveyard Walking Tours
Eating Clean – by Kathy Terpstra,
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The Sustainable Garden – by Garnet McPherson, Growing your own food supply
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The Green Alternative Plan – by Henri Girand, A small scale energy solution for Ontario
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Lifestyle Trends – by Jennifer Lester,
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Implants, the hottest dental trend
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In the Eating Clean article in the spring issue we missed attributing quotes used from the book, Eat Clean by Tosca Rena. Our sincere apologies.
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have a ton of fun with our friends, and spend every spare minute soaking up this incredible landscape. But we also work, work hard with some of the best companies in the County and in Canada and do some pretty incredible creative. Check us out online, see what we’re up to and what makes us different. www.scoutdesign.ca
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Summer for me means biking, hiking, and kayaking. Of those, I’m happiest in a kayak. There is something about being on the water on a warm sunny day that is very calming.
Since 1989, Country Classics Cupolas have become synonymous with quality and craftsmanship, gracing many town and country properties throughout North America.
Bernie Gray is well known in Belleville and Prince Edward County for his kayak instruction and tours. When I kayaked with Bernie last year, he mentioned he does an annual kayak around the County. I may not get around the whole County this year, but will at least start with one of the routes mentioned in his article. Our home feature this month is a beautiful waterfront home that is rich in history and character. The renovations were extensive and the results nothing short of stunning. Look at any local map of Prince Edward County and you will be surprised at the number of dive sites. Numerous dive sites mean numerous wrecks. Last year I heard Kenn Feigelman of Deep Quest 2 Expeditions give a presentation on the Marysburg Vortex and the sunken ship they ‘re-discovered’. Chatting with local sailors, many have mentioned their compass does strange things in certain locations.
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Those who enjoyed last year’s series ‘A Year in the Life of a Vigneron’ will be delighted to read Bruno’s story of his love affair with Pinot Noir. If you haven’t had a picnic in a long time, Cynthia Peters has the answers on how to make it even more interesting. Cynthia is an expert on picnics, has great ideas and prepared her delicious seasonal pasta salad and lemon chicken for the picnic photos. Have a wonderful summer. Donna Kearns
Love of
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Pinot Noir
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V
egas is not my kind of city. I don’t gamble and I don’t like mega shows. Even the glitzy crass of their main drag is lost on me. In fact, I wouldn’t be there at all if it weren’t for business. Yet it was in Vegas, of all places, that I had my first bottle of profound pinot noir. The restaurant was Picasso at The Bellagio. The wine was a Volnay from grapes grown in 1978. Haunting scents of acacia and violets rose from the rim. From that moment, I was captured by the sirens of pinot noir. The wine swirled in my glass and I was no longer in Vegas. I was in Burgundy. VosneRomanée, Pommard, Echezeaux, Vougeot, Chambolle-Musigny, such beautiful names, how could they not make beautiful wine? Great pinot noir, more than any other wine, is the reflection of a place and a time. People spend years and their retirement fund searching for that elusive high. What did I do? I planted it. A late morning walk in my vineyard after a rainstorm and the cool, musty smell of damp earth permeates the air. I examine the tiny tendrils gripping the trellis wire and ponder why the vine is so happy growing in this heavy limestone till. Like Burgundy we say, but in reality, they are only second cousins twice removed. The sticky clay weighing down my boots is black not the reddish brown a vineyard worker in Morey-Saint-Denis would scrape off. Ordovician bedrock twelve to sixteen inches below my feet is a tad older by some three hundred million years and medium grey not sandy yellow. No Jurassic dinosaurs roamed Prince Edward County when our sediment was laid down, only ancient crustaceans, coral, and trilobites. I run my fingers across the hundreds of fossils that dot the surface of a larger stone. It feels like braille. I close my eyes and imagine life as it once was on this seabed. Pinot noir is thought to be the oldest variety of European grapevine, the mother of all other Vitis vinifera. Perhaps, for this reason it loves our primordial land. It is at home.
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Sometimes, life mirrors itself in surprising and contrasting ways. Pinot noir is like that. The beauty of its expression is as rare as its home, the quality as difficult as its viticulture. It is a red wine with white wine structure not judged by darkness, but by the beauty of its ruby hue. Other varieties hang their clusters loose and breezy. Pinot noir tightly packs its progeny the size of my fist, a bountiful home to pathogens that bore through thin skins. How many vignerons have watched their vineyards rot away in the time it takes to say the word vinegar? I shudder. I knew all this before I started, so who can I blame during frequent nights of insomnia? Some mornings when it’s hard to get up, I understand how much harder we work here, growing these grapes. Hills of dirt are thrown up to ward off winter’s wrath. Burgundians prune at leisure through the cold months. We cannot, blocked by an icy wall. Then, in April, the ground finally thaws. Prince Edward County is mad with activity whilst the French blithely relax, reading Le Monde and sipping a strong café au lait. Dark cherries and chocolate, rosehip and raspberries, pinot noir made in the County begins to show the promise of greatness. The vines are still toddlers learning how to speak the language of the land they have rooted. They won’t be lonely, more are coming. Rickety mechanical planters march down row after row placing upright vines eager to grow and explore. Me, well I haven’t been back to Vegas. I continue to search for that elusive bottle, an aging monarch full of poise and dignity with so much to say. Maybe, just maybe, it will come from the County. Bruno François The Old Third Vineyard www.theoldthird.com Photos by Jens Körberg
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