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July 21, 2009
7/19/09 What do my clusters look like?
Baconbrook
Starting to get a bit of purple hue. Veraison (when the grapes turn from green to purple) is just around the corner.
There are a few purple berries...
Every year we have to replant a few vines.
Butterdragon Hill
A lot of leaf overgrowth brings mildew danger.
In order to reduce mildew threat, we go from this...
...to this. Leaves are thinned out to allow more airflow around clusters.
Posted by matchvineyards at July 21, 2009 03:35 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 10, 2009
7/8/2009 What do your clusters look like?
Baconbrook Vineyard
Berries are a bit fuller than 3 weeks ago, but we're still a few weeks out from being able to make an accurate crop size estimate.
Posted by matchvineyards at July 10, 2009 12:14 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 20, 2009
6/18/2009 What do your clusters look like?
Baconbrook Vineyard
Butterdragon Hill Vineyard
Barbour Vineyards has just come through and leafed back the vines on Butterdragon Hill. Looking very clean.
Posted by matchvineyards at June 20, 2009 01:49 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
June 17, 2009
06/05/2009 What do your clusters look like?
Starting to get berry formation at Butterdragon Hill
Getting close to time to leaf the vineyard to bring back that canopy a bit on Butterdragon Hill
Baconbrook is further along with clusters showing more berries
Baconbrook shows less vigor, undoubtedly due to less water retention in the soil
Posted by matchvineyards at June 17, 2009 09:19 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
