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Glad things are coming back to life!

I definitely have to net. Last year was the first year I let the vines ripen grapes and the nets seemed to work. Lol, good eye on the spray. I till the rows in early spring but don’t spray the weeds after that. My wife wants to spray strictly for aesthetic reasons but I won’t let her until all...

Crazy they didn’t have them for all of 2021. I haven’t used these guys but they say they still have 350 in stock and will ship until June 1: Cynthiana Grape Plant | Wine Grape Vines For Sale.

If you’re looking for next spring then Double A should have them available to order in a couple months. I think they usually start taking orders in July for the following spring - did you ask them?

Late May update. The hybrids have recovered fairly well from the frost; I’d say 75-80% of what I had expected. The Marquette set berries this past week: Itasca too: Cabernet Franc is looking pretty good and just starting bloom: It’s been a fairly dry spring so the plants are looking...

Did you add acid as well?

I have the one you have from ThermoWorks and have been super happy. Interested in hearing more about the OP’s experience with the Meater as I looked briefly at that one before deciding.

So here’s one on the local winemaking community side, one that @Booty Juice or @balatonwine may relate to. Again, I’ll apologize in advance for the lousy photo quality. About ten years ago I had a trip to eastern Slovakia near Michalovce and not too far from the border with Hungary in February...

It seems like an odd thing for the EU to get involved in but I also don’t fully understand how the EU PDO laws interact with the Member Countries’ individual geographical indication regulations. I don’t have a strong opinion on allowing the practice or not as it seems to me to be aimed at the...

Here are examples from my vineyard last year. They take the tips of the shoots, leaving them semi-attached. I’ve not seen them go after the base. Here are what the telltale signs of grape cane girdlers look like:

A picture in focus would definitely be helpful. From your description it sounds like grape cane girdlers. I had a bunch of them last year in Virginia and have seen evidence of a few this year.

Fred, do you mean done with small barrels forever or just this year?

Can’t wait to see how the season goes for you! Can’t wait to see how the season goes for you!

I haven’t had this particular wine from Chateau Revelette but have had others that are excellent: https://revelette.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ft-grand-rouge-2017.pdf. In 2017, this wine was 40 % Syrah / 18 % Cabernet Sauvignon / 16 % Carignan / 13 % Grenache / 13 % Pinot Noir, though in 2018...

I think it will depend on your disease pressure, your cultivar’s susceptibility, and how many times you have to spray. There are a number of fungicide charts but I think this one is pretty good summary: https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/files/ppfs-fr-s-18.pdf. Immunox is myclobutanil which is...

Very cool, I’ve lived in Lyon twice: once as a student and once for work. It’s a neat city, but always nice to get out in the country which is beautiful in the surrounding environs. I’d love some Gamay as well but it seems impossible to get out here on the East coast; even the vines don’t seem...

Unfortunately, these aren’t the highest quality photos but since you expressed interest in seeing different regions from around the world I thought I’d share these from the vineyards of Vin et Pic in the Côtes du Forez near my wife’s hometown in France. This vineyard is specifically in Écotay...

I’d guess a leafroller or leaffolder. I had them my first couple years but spray with BT now and haven’t had any issues since.

That’s kind of what I suspected: the ability to get the grapes into the processing facility more quickly is thought to make up for any damage to the clusters from the harvester. Thanks again - helpful and informative as always.

This may be slightly off topic for this conversation but how does mechanical harvesting decrease oxidative risk? I would have guessed the opposite.