1.   The kitchen garden has a large conservatory with an old vine and cucumber frames straight out of Beatrix Potter.

2.   Are old vines always the best?

3.   Bordeaux had been hard-hit by the Depression, and few old vines had been replaced.

4.   A vinifera grape with uncertain origins, zinfandel reaches its true glory as a full-bodied red wine, especially when the wine is made from old vines.

5.   But they found old vines on the property, which was a vineyard before prohibition, and the rest is wine history.

6.   Chappellet makes an intense chenin from old vines that should have induced other innovators to give the grape a try.

7.   Earlier this year he released Edizione Pennino, his first zinfandel, made from old vines at his Napa Valley estate.

8.   European Union subsidies in recent years have encouraged growers in the Languedoc region of southern France to pull out their old vines and plant better varieties.

9.   Ever since Zinfandel was first made in California, winemakers have been using the fruit of old vines to give their wines depth and character.

10.   Healthy old vines generally bear fewer grapes but may yield intense, delicious fruit.