From Our Vineyard

Last week, we planted several hundred new LaCrosse vines at Maple Woods and this week, we planted a test plot of 60 Clarion vines at Meadowcreek East. We use the LaCrosse to make a varietal wine and also as a blending component in three wines. The Clarion

This week, we finished pruning Itasca, Verona, and Petite Pearl at Tassel Ridge vineyard. We also tied up the year-old LaCrosse at Maple Woods. We started spraying fungicide and mowed everywhere we could. The vineyard team will start planting new vines next week. They will include 66

This week, we finished the pruning and tying up of Foch and LaCrosse at Newport Lane and Itasca, Verona, and Crimson Pearl at Tassel Ridge Vineyard. We took advantage of still air to spray fungicide and we used our weed badger to clean weeds out of a

We have had nice weather during the daytime hours so we’ve really made great progress with pruning. Itasca and Verona are new varieties that may not be familiar to you. Itasca makes a white wine. It is a grape variety that was developed at the University of

We have taken advantage of the nice weather and have continued to prune Edelweiss. We are making great progress. The recent cold snaps got our attention. With sap moving up the vines, buds are starting to swell but we think they were still hard enough and temperatures

Last week, we finished hand pruning the Sabrevois, and also the St. Pepin and Brianna, all at Maple Woods. We mechanically pruned Edelweiss with our V-Mech at Tassel Ridge this week and switched to follow-up hand pruning Edelweiss by mid-week. With 17 acres of Edelweiss, this project

The weather, while not perfect for pruning this week, did allow for a couple of days in the vineyard and we made good progress. The Sabrevois is located at Tassel Ridge and Maple Woods Vineyards. Because we didn’t need this variety last year, we didn’t prune it.

On nice weather days, we are already out in the vineyard getting started with hand pruning. Some varieties start to bud out as soon as they are pruned so we avoid those varieties for now and start on varieties like Marquette and La Crescent that can be