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IN THE VINES WITH NETTING

We only have a little more than 300 acres of vines planted in this valley, and it's a big fruit production area. (apples and pears!) The birds are naturally drawn here. The bird netting is just one of those things about making wine in Lake Chelan. If we don't put up this bird netting to protect our grapes, we won't have any come harvest time. So that is what is the deal here. When you see this in another region, you know that they too are suffering from too many of those friendly creatures. That's really all there is to it.

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