From Our Vineyard

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

Last week, we harvested Petite Pearl, Verona, La Crescent and we harvested Sabrevois on Monday. Once harvest is done, we will return all harvest equipment to where it stays in the off season. Then, the maintenance work starts. That includes pulling trees and shrubs from all of

Last week, we hand-harvested the Foch at Newport Lane and then completed harvests of Marquette, Petite Pearl, and Crimson Pearl. We also applied fertilizer to the newly planted Foch vines at Meadowcreek. This week, we harvested Petite Pearl and Verona at Tassel Ridge. We then moved the

We are focused on harvesting right now. When the grapes are ready, we don’t do anything else until they are harvested. We are machine harvesting most grapes and we start at 3 A.M. to get the grapes when they are at their coolest. In our Foch vineyard

We harvested Brianna at the Tassel Ridge Vineyard last week. The yield was low but the quality looked good. While we are waiting for more grapes to ripen, we have been focused on removing Virginia Creeper (aka Parthenocissus quinquefolia) from our vineyards. Virginia Creeper is native to

This year has been unlike any previous year in that grapes were slow to develop and then very slow to increase sugar content. We are testing daily and are ready to harvest but the grapes are not ready. Normally, we would have started with Brianna by August

We raised the grow tubes on the young vines we planted in June. This is the third time we have done that and it is to protect the tender apical shoots from deer predation. The deer think these shoots are the best salad they can think of!

In the past week, we mowed both the Tassel Ridge® and Meadowcreek Vineyards and because of the rain, they really needed to be mowed. We also got ready for more rain by pumping the lagoons. We continued tying up the vines, straightened pencil rods, and secured them