Harvest started early this year by several weeks and then along came some cool weather for several weeks. So we started several weeks early and now we are a week later than normal. Cool weather has come again but with an outlook of some more heat, I bet I will be harvesting till the very […]
Sorry, it’s been several months since my last update, we have been rather busy trying to keep up with this growing season. I left you at the point that we’ll talk a little on the relationship between Vineyard management and the type of wine, or the style of wine that the winemakers are trying to […]
So I left you off last month complaining about Murphy’s Law and the amount of rain we were getting. Well the law was amended and he did give us a reprieve. We were finally able to catch up and finish our pruning, and knock on wood, we were able to get all our frost controls […]
So why is it, when you ask for rain it doesn’t come, and when you don’t want rain it comes in buckets? I think Mr. Murphy has been in the Napa Valley wine tasting. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about the rain just its timing. We were on our home stretch on pruning, […]