Winter persists on Howell Mountain. Normally, the seasonal rain ends in March and resumes in November. It has rained every week in April and the high temperatures have occasionally and briefly reached the 60s. We need about 6 months of heat and sunshine for the...
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This is our friends' vineyard in northern Wisconsin. No. Wait. This is their friends' vineyard in northern California. Yep, this is what we awoke to on March 5. It would be heart warming on December 24, but not so much in March. What a year...
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We kicked off harvest season by wrapping the perimeter of the vineyard in bird netting. Quail are our biggest fowl fans. Quail prefer to walk, not fly, into the vineyard. A few years ago we noticed that they're reluctant to walk on the plastic netting....
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This isn't a hand slap description. It's how grapes grow on our vines. In the accompanying photos, you see Barb cutting off a cluster about 5' off the ground and a cluster growing about 5" off the ground (below the irrigation emitter to the left). [gallery...
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