From Our Vineyard

We have plenty of equipment that requires annual servicing and with the vineyard now snow covered, we are using our equipment sheds to get everything ready for pruning and fertilizing in the spring. Last week, we talked about the survivability of our cold-climate grapevines when it is

Working in the vineyard with 8 inches of snow on the ground is not possible so we will shift to indoor tasks until the snow melts. A major indoor project is to investigate ways of modifying our granular fertilizer spreader to deliver fertilizer only under the vines

We finished mowing the 35 acre Tassel Ridge Vineyard with our new Fischer under-vine mower. With this new machine, we can mow the grass-covered aisle between the trellises and simultaneously the strip under the trellis on both sides of the mower simultaneously. We have found that we

We finished removing the acre of Sabrevois vines that were more than 20 years old. They were located in the northwest corner of the Tassel Ridge vineyard. We had not harvested fruit from those vines for more than five years. We then mowed the grass strips at

We have now removed trees from the entire 33-acre Tassel Ridge Vineyard. This is a big step because trees and shrubs will prevent us from eliminating weeds that grow under the vines. These weeds compete for the nutrients that we will apply in the spring. You might

The vineyard team focused over the past two-three weeks on removing trees from the east side of the Tassel Ridge Vineyard and they are now working on the west side. They have also started work on the Steuben Block at Meadowcreek Vineyard. We ordered a new piece

While we are not yet done pulling trees, we are making good progress. We will also remove about 600 old Sabrevois vines that we have not harvested fruit from for several years. We have no immediate plans to replace these vines but we will keep the space

We have made nice progress in pulling trees and shrubs from our vineyard at Tassel Ridge. We have more work to do and will continue until we are done or bad weather stops us. We also are spraying fungicide in all of our vineyards in order to

We returned macro-bins and other equipment to the warehouse, transferred wine back to the Winery and then went to work removing trees in the Tassel Ridge Vineyard. We hit weed removal under the vines hard and then realized that our weed eaters need to be repaired so

We started by moving harvest equipment back to the warehouse for the winter. We did maintenance work on some equipment prior to returning it to the warehouse. Then, we resumed pulling trees at Tassel Ridge Vineyard (where we have a lot of work to do). We started