Running a small vineyard.

From: Swiss News | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Littlejohn, Simone | Copyright information

Monika Fanti owns and cultivates 2.2 hectares in the Klus Valley and she is as full of life and spirit as the vines she tends to. With only seasonal help she grows about 13,000 tons of the highest quality grapes and produces 8,000 litres of wine in four varieties. She sells all the wine she produces directly from her vineyard to her loyal customers.

Grape vines stretch in long, tidy rows up and down countless hillsides of the Basel countryside and in many cases have been...

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