Great to see this channel alive again ❤

How wonderful to see the vines all planted and growing well!

Survive little grapvines!

Great choice of music to accent a beautiful accomplshment! Marc, it was touching to see you pause before the significant moment of beginnng to plant. That moment showed such a sincere form of gratitude. Your family's attachment to this project has been so clear so many times. Thank you for sharing your dream with us.

Marc, Jason, John and Dave(?) did a really great job in the vineyard! I didn’t know that even the distance between the vines is regulated!

This vineyard planting vlog will be wonderful for your descendents to watch how this empty field became their vineyard. ❤. Making memories!

I loved the digger waltz. I giggled for ages

Great progress!!! I’m so happy that the vines did well during the heat wave!!! I hope the alternating deluge and drought will have them sending their roots deep for next year. 🤔 I wonder if grape-leaf fed deer tastes like it’s had a good marinade. I know here, back when my dad used to bow-hunt, I preferred the ones that lived by pilfering from the corn fields south and west of the city, compared to the ones we had that lived off oak forests to the north. I just realized, yours will also have been eating chestnuts. 🤤😉 (Dad hunted using a recurve bow, not the pulley-powered modern things where a child can pull 40 lbs. We didn’t get to eat venison every year.) Great digger driver! I had to chuckle at the music you chose. In the 1990’s, there was a TV commercial in Japan for Caterpillar tractors that showed a similar sized digger “dancing” to that tune in a field. 😁

As a wine lover, I am really pleased to witness the creation of a vineyard. Looking forward to see the birth of the next great wine!

Marc. The progress is amazing. Your own vineyard is a huge undertaking but will be so rewarding. Yes deer can always be an issue I don’t have a vineyard but i grow roses. The deer love to move through my garden at night and eat the rosebuds and new growth. So frustrating. You and Amy are so hardworking. Love watching your videos. Deborah from North Carolina 😊😊❤

Oh Bambi, naughty Bambi!

Heartwarming to see the care with which everyone approached the creation of the vineyard. We live in Saskatchewan, Canada where, for decades - at least - the water table has been impacted by drought. My husband and I don't farm, but we are surrounded by fields of wheat, legumes, and canola and we pay even more attention now to the weather than when we lived in more populated areas. Your vines reminded me of the saplings my husband has planted on our land in attempts to reforest some of our land. It's a sharp learning curve to know where and what to plant and how to ensure the plants are watered when needed most. It's such a humbling experience to tend to the soil and the plants. I can see you folks understand that. Wonderful to watch you create your lives together in such a beautiful (and demanding) setting. Thank you for sharing this part of you lives and work with us.

How rewarding to see all those new green leaves growing, wonderful nature!

🤣 “Oh dear/deer, Bambi left his footsteps around the vines.” 🤣 Marc, you are a treasure! Or at least your jokes make one groan as if weighed down with some. 😁

I was wondering how the vines were doing. Such back breaking work! And so many regulations! Please continue to vlog about the vineyard. We are all enjoying your progress.

Great to see the start of your vineyard 😁

If you want to keep deer away from any plants collect your egg shells, crunch them up and sprinkle them around the plant/ area the deer will stay away they hate it smells of eggs. They smell like sulfur to the deer. The egg shells will also disintegrate and add calcium. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing!

Very interesting to see grape vines being planted from the beginning.

They've grown so much already! Good job! 😄

Deer! The bane of my garden! 😒 Hope the vineyard survives all of the things nature throws at it, and gives you a great harvest in time. ❤️😊

So glad to get an update, I wondered what happened!

Vines are all looking healthy

We planted some grapes on our farm, just for our use. Can’t wait to see how yours turn out. Great episode!! Lots of love from Tennessee!!

So exciting. Well done to all the workers and to Marc for planning it all and taking care of it. A great achievement ❤

Looking beautiful and hoping your hard work produces some wonderful grapes for wine production! Bravo 🍇🍇

Wonderful to see you and your progress. Well done!

Bambi won't bother your vines as much if you spray some wolf urine along the edges of your plot. In America it is also common to run heavy fishing line around a plot about a meter above the soil, doesn't need to be real tight.

Cheers to your research and hard work ! Looking forward to your progress and success !

Your vineyard is beautiful. Very impressed with growth. Doesn’t look like any (many?) were lost!

Mark you could do that digger we know you could. Wear is your little jeep so you don't have to run back and forth? Wow I bet your all super tired. Wow can't believe how fast those grew. It looks great!

So happy that you got your vineyard planted 🎉🎊🤩Bonne chance 😍😘

Great.

This was great! It turned out to be a little bit before-and-after which was a good contrast to see. Thank you. Go vineyard!

Fascinating! Good luck with your vineyard! 🥰

Congratulations!! This is an encouraging start for all your dreams & hard work to plant your own vineyard! Thank you for sharing the beginnings of the vineyard. I’ll enjoy watching the progress!

Amazing results after all your hard work during winter and illness .🎉😊

Looks like you had some good helpers there.

You are so happy to get started, your smile says it all. We have several vineyards around here (Virginia) and the plants are so neat and tidy, all in the rows and well tended, so pretty.

The vines are beautiful! Fine work, guys!

I love Marc’s passion and knowledge! Well done all! It was actually great to see the planting and the progress update in one video!

Cheers ❤❤❤❤

Great video, Marc! So happy to see all of the progress with the vines. I can't wait to order some wine from your vineyard to be delivered here to the US, and to drink a glass.

The deer are in my yard every night but have stayed out of my garden thanks to the solar powered ultrasonic deer machines I put in the 4 corners of my garden. It emits a high pitched sound that I don't hear but the deer hear it & don't like it.

Wow, that was a quick growth - I wish you luck with this Vineyard !

Oh deer! I go out daily and check for hoof prints, as we have several that wander through the garden. Bambi's not so cute as he once was. This is such an exciting video, and so good to see the growth a few months later without having to wait! Good luck!

I LOVE IT MARC! A BEGINNING TO A NEW REGIONAL WINE. 4 -5 YEARS? VERY EXCITING ❤

Looking great,Marc. The soil looks amazing now that it has been worked well to expose the fertile layer under the hard pack on top. The grape vines appear to love the field so far👏🏻🥰. Now let’s hope the deer leave enough of them to get good growth and root systems😮

I feel I’ve waited forever to see this programme. It’s great and well worth the wait. Good lick with your vigneron life.

Excited to see the progress you guys have made!

Good start, good to see you guys

Well done!! As South Africans where plants need to be nurtured quite well, my husband and I were very surprised to see the vines took off so well. Here with us we have a strict discipline how to plant. Even mass plantings happen like this: We never make a round hole like i saw the British and the EU is doing. After we made the square whole double the size of the roots and the width of the plant, we place the plant in the hole, then we throw the first soil in the hole. If we filled it half way with soil, we need to pull the plant up to "the plant Level" on the stem so that the roots can point downwards and the soil must not press the roots upwards past the stem.. The plant level is very important that the plant don't suffocate because it is planted too deep. Most common reason here that a newly planted plant does not grow is because it is planted too deep in the ground. Then we will fill the hole with all the remaining soil that came out of the hole plus the extra compost we work into the hole. Then we step next to the roots to make the ground sturdy around the plant and we will start to wet it. When planting in clay soil, we start to wet when the hole is empty and when half filled another amount of water and then finally when all the soil is in the hole, we finally wet it. I see on all the vlogs how easily with little care plants are growing in Europe. It is so special. Hope you will have great joy and success with that vineyard.

A new vineyard. And I was able to watch it from the beginning. Looking forward to seeing the progress 😊

Welcome back! Great video with interesting content. Looking forward to others

The plants look great! 🍇😊

Looking forward to see your vines growing strong!

Great video. Super digger driver. Best of luck with your vineyard.

The earth looks succulent 😊

BEST WISHES TO YOU

Wonderful that you had help and marc you look like a kid on christmas lol so happy 😅😊😊❤

This is so Amazing Marc having your own vineyard that’s magical

So glad to see your progress, it is going to be wonderful.

So interesting. Thank you.

Bonjour bonsoir Congratulations my loves you now have a winery I enjoyed watching the preparation of the soil the propagation of the vines so interesting Mark is an up and coming wine grower I look forward to the years ahead Chateau de Roseries vintage wine enchante💖💖😍😍👌👌🍸🍸🌟

Oh deer 😂😂😂 hoping your hard work will pay off 🤞🤞🤞💪💪💪 it's great to see more of you again 😉👍

This was fascinating learning about planting and seeing them grow, Thank you for sharing, Great job !

Wow, this is impressive. I love seeing the beginning of new life in the soil. Would a battery-operated electric fence help keep the deer out?

“Oh deer! Bambi left his footsteps around the vine…”😂

I am soooooooo excited for you guys!!! Nothing more tantalizing than a vineyard ❤❤ Hahahah.....love the digger waltz...Mark if you had a toy like that I am sure you would become proficient at it. Such a science to growing things. When I get to France I want to come visit you guys for sure!!!! Will pray for the vines 🙏

lovely to see

Brilliant xxx

Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉 How exciting!

Congratulations! It’s the same way you plant bear root roses. I once saw a vineyard which had a rose planted at the end of each row.😊

Hello lovelies x

That looks really great 😃

What a great team. Sending lots of good wishes for rain and perfect conditions to get these vines established. Mark’s knowledge and expertise on all things is astounding. 👏🏻👏🏻

This is so exciting!! I got my first grapes off my vines, this year!! I cant wait to see how yours thrive!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Marc has such reverance for the land!!!

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Most interesting--I wish your vineyard all success.

Looking great! Will be exciting to see the vineyard tall and lush in a few years. Have I missed a palm tree update?

I was wondering about this.. so exciting ❤ looks awesome

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Thankyou for this series. I’m really enjoying the focus on the grounds and agricultural aspects. I’m also learning lots of ‘stuff’ and finding it so interesting. I had no idea of the rules and regulations you guys have to abide by. Off to binge watch the rest of this series and catch up on all your pursuits. 😊

Félicitations à toi, Marc 🎉🎈 Did the excavator makes the lines in the soil when levelling it, or were they created by something else - it looks great! I love a freshly prepared field. It must be satisfying to know that the soil's been prepared properly. Wondering if anyone use deer fencing, in Cornas 🤔 I've just been reading about irrigation 😮😮 This is going to be really interesting to learn about, thanks Marc!

I have been worried. I use a product here in the states called Love Your Soil, it helps keep soil from becoming compacted. Never disappoints. Jonathan Green. Gypsum derivative formulated with humates, calcium, iron, sulfur, and molasses. Wonder if you can find something similar.

Good job

Question: I can understand why there would be a minimum distance between plants, but what is the reason for setting a maximum distance?

I just realised how far the vineyard is from Rosieres. If it takes a car over 1 hour, then a tractor is driving more than 3 hours I guess?

Dont drop those plum stones into that lovely soft soil. They sprout easily and are so difficult to get out again!

How exciting! ✨🌞✨