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unusual facts about The Vineyard



Karen Witter

She soon made the transition to acting, working mostly on television in guest spots on series as diverse as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984), Cheers (1988), The Vineyard (1989), The X-Files (1995), Sabrina the Teenage Witch 1998, NYPD Blue (2000) and Malcolm in the Middle (2001).


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Cape Cod Railroad

In 1871, the Cape Cod Railroad bought the Plymouth and Vineyard Sound Railroad – which had been incorporated in 1861 as the Vineyard Sound Railroad Company intending to build a line from Buzzards Bay to Woods Hole.

Élisabeth de Rothschild

Following the German occupation of France in World War II, she and her then-estranged husband were arrested by the Vichy government and the vineyard property seized.

Enrique Vollmer winery

Since 1987, the vineyard has been in the possession of the German winemaker Heinrich Vollmer, who also owns and runs a vineyard in Ellerstadt/Palatinate (region) since 1972.

Gitta Mallasz

She gave up her little house in Périgord and moved to live in Tartaras in the vineyard region of the Côte-Rôtie in the vicinity of her close friends Bernard and Patricia Montaud.

Gloria Ferrer

Legume cover crops are planted in the vineyard to convert nitrogen for the vine use, as well as serving as homes for beneficial insects.

Lieu-dit

Although the Grand Cru burgundies are in generally considered to be classified on the vineyard level and defined as separate AOCs (with the exception of Chablis Grand Cru), some Burgundy Grand Crus are in fact divided into several lieux-dits.

Louis François, Prince of Conti

After the purchase he added his own name to the vineyard, which since has been known as Romanée-Conti.

Moulis-en-Médoc

The French Revolution did not help the vineyard, but it picked itself back up again quickly to reach its peak at the end of the 19th century with an area of 1,500 hectares, before being decimated by the Phylloxera aphid.

Nicholas Winset

Winset, a descendent of French Jews fleeing the Holocaust, was raised in the Caribbean and Miami, Florida, where he attended the Vineyard School in Silver Bluff Estates and Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove.

Renault Winery

The vineyard was first planted in 1864 by Louis Nicolas Renault, a French immigrant from Mareuil-sur-Ay who brought the original vinifera grapes from France.

Robin Goldwasser

The musical opened at the Vineyard Theater in New York in November 2004, starring Robin, John Flansburgh, Erin Hill, David Driver, and Maggie Moore.