Vine replacement Part 2: Filling the holes

Remember about 6 weeks ago I posted a little video of a backhoe pulling out dead vines and making holes for us to replant them?  Well guess what?  Now we have to fill them back in. By hand.  No nice modern machine to do it for us!  Did I mention that there are 270 holes? Ugh. When we started on Saturday it was cold and windy and the piles of dirt were frozen, this does not help.  It was awful.  We lasted about an hour and a half, then decided to wait to see if it got any warmer.  Sunday it was much better and we were a bit more productive, except for the fact that we were slightly hung-over from a blow-out black truffle dinner the night before at our house, where we very stupidly drank too much wine, Champagne, White Burgundy, Chateauneuf-du-Pape and then the nail in the coffin, one last bottle to go with the cheese an 85 Margaux... It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the next day out in the vineyards we definitely regretted it!  Oh well, the fresh air did us some good. Needless to say filling holes is hard work.  My dad needed a rest when we got back!

Tomorrow we go pick up the baby vines, and Saturday we plant them!  It's going to be a fun-filled weekend, I can't wait to plant those new little mourvèdres!