From Our Vineyard

Although the weather cooled off last week slowing the rate that vines come out of dormancy, we remain very cautious because we’ve experienced warm weather much earlier in the season than usual. We are very concerned about a cold snap in April or early May that could

Although we remain wary of unseasonably warm weather, we are forging ahead with pruning varieties that usually bud late. We’ve started with Edelweiss and will finish Edelweiss by mid-week. We long pruned our Edelweiss with our V-Mech mechanical pruning system (click here for brief video) and will

We are walking on pins and needles in the vineyards right now. Recent warm weather combined with a relatively warm winter are causing buds on some early budding varieties to swell. If we achieve bud break in late March, we will lose leaves and buds if we

The colder weather has sent the vines into dormancy so we can now spray herbicide under the vines at Newport Lane and spray herbicide to control broadleaved weeds in-between the vines at Newport Lane and Maple Woods. We will also be spraying pre-emergent herbicides at Maple Woods

This week, we will finish removing trees at Meadowcreek and we hope to finish painting the tops of posts at Meadowcreek. We will be spraying fungicide at Meadowcreek and herbicide at Maple Woods and in the front of Newport Lane Vineyard. The process of vines hardening off