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May was really wet, with over 6 inches of rain in our Fosterville vineyard in Cayuga County, and the rain continued in June, ...
Grapes sit squarely on the list of plants you shouldn't prune in the fall, but mature and established vines should be pruned yearly during winter after all leaves have dropped. A good pruning time ...
Thriving on the vine: Colorado wine industry upbeat after couple of tough years Industry experts, businesses banking on good harvest after back-to-back years of grapes blasted by extreme weather ...
Grape skins contain polyphenols, which give wine its color, aroma and body. A pump-over uses wine from the bottom of the tank, which is then sprayed over the top to push the grape skins back below ...
From the vine, the grapes at Olathea are dumped into giant bins that hold about 1,000 pounds of grapes a piece. When Flaherty goes out to purchase grapes, he tries to buy at least a ton at a time.
Pruning Grape Vines. Episode 91 | 8m 34s Video has Closed Captions | CC. We take you through the process of pruning grape vines. 03/24/2023 ...
Concord vines eventually made their way to New York in the 1870s, and today the grape’s major growing areas include the Finger Lakes region, Lakes Erie and Ontario, southwestern Michigan and ...
Propagating grapes from dormant hardwood cuttings is a realistic venture for anyone with access to grape vines. Since grapes should have 80 – 90 percent of their vines removed every year, you ...
Old vines exist almost everywhere that grapes are grown. Abbott’s Old Vine Conference membership spans over 20 countries and includes some of the most iconic wine regions in South Africa, ...