1.   During the autumn, we hunted mushrooms, fished for pike, and tasted the first grapes of the season as they ripened on the vine.

2.   Four years later, they planted their first grapes, pioneering Chardonnay cultivation in California.

3.   He, too, has started growing red wine vines, although the first grapes will not appear for three years.

4.   On this spring day, the first grape buds were breaking into clusters that in five months or so will be harvested to produce premium wines.

5.   Take, for example, the mission grape, the first wine grape introduced in this country.

6.   The first Concord grapes are presented at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

7.   The first grapes to be crushed at the facility are expectged in two weeks.