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Wine of Wyoming

It’s the fruit of innovation, sunshine and sandy soil.

Turn a dusty corner, and there standing beside rows of ripening corn is a less familiar scene, with sweet berries hanging in clusters partly hidden among broad leaves, establishing secure roots in Goshen County ground.

These vines have grown to full stature by virtue of diligence and patient care, pruning and weeding and watering, until at last the sun-finished grapes will be ready to pick, and a harvest ritual as old as civilization begins.

Birds love the grapes for wine named Valiant and Frontenac and Foche.

"One thing we all learned is we have to prepare for the birds," grower Dick Schutt of Lingle affirms. He wraps the leaves and clusters of fruit in black netting. The Zimmerer family near Huntley has deployed calls mimicking distressed birds, which are supplemented by the occasional roar of a propane cannon.

By TOM MAST
Star-Tribune staff writer

Full Story: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/08/14/news/business/ac470fbbb6395a618725705c0074bdf1.txt

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