Pulling Wood at Maison Maenad

The least-exciting vineyard task in one of the Jura's most exciting vineyards. A look at Katie Worobeck's new 3ha plot in Saint-Laurent-la-Roche.

Katie Worobeck and Ted in her new parcel in the lieu-dit “Au Carré” in Saint-Laurent-la-Roche.

BUNS OF STEEL

“The upside of pruning and pulling wood for weeks on end,” says Canadian émigrée Jura vigneronne Katie Worobeck after we pack up the picnic, pull on gloves, and start plodding up the slope of her new parcel in early March, “is it gives you buns of…