From Our Vineyard

This week, the vineyard crew will be continuing work on trellis system maintenance. We are also starting work on converting some of our Marquette from VSP (vertical shoot positioning) to high wire (single high wire) trellis. We took advice from our vine supplier back in 2006 that

This week, the vineyard crew will try to get the remaining tasks done required to get the vineyards ready for winter. We still have some trellis damage to fix. We will also clean pickups and tractors and put them away in storage for the winter. We hope

Removing the volunteer Mulberry trees has taken what seems like forever, but we are finally down to the last few trees. It’s too bad that we can’t find a use for these trees….telephone pole seeds maybe! The crew at our Tassel Ridge Vineyard will shift to replacing

The vineyard crew will continue pulling Mulberry trees in the Tassel Ridge vineyard. The very wet ground makes this fairly easy. We will also be spraying fungicide as soon as it gets dry enough. Some of the vineyard team will help bottle Oskyfizzante® Cranberry on Tuesday and

With our harvest finished, the vineyard crew moves toward vineyard maintenance activities on a full time basis now to take advantage of good weather. We’ll receive a semi-load of trellis posts and this week will start replacing broken posts at Maple Woods Vineyard. We will be thoroughly power

The vineyard crew is ready to harvest as soon as the fruit tastes good, sugar levels rise, and acid levels drop. We are thinking that it will be St. Pepin, followed by LaCrosse, so we will remove the netting on the St. Pepin the day before we

We started picking Edelweiss at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. We put the fruit into refrigerated trucks at the Winery so the grapes were ready and waiting for crush to begin Monday morning. We will be picking Edelweiss every day until it is all made into juice. This year’s harvest

We harvested our Brianna in two vineyards on Sunday morning starting at 3 a.m.! The grapes are at their coolest early in the morning. We put them in one of our refrigerated trucks where they stayed until we could process them on Monday morning. Our objective is to

Our vineyard team will continue repairing the portions of trellis that were damaged by the wind storm on July 18. A continuing careful audit of each row of vines at the Winery is revealing that wires have come loose from posts and that more line posts have