Vintage Notes: Spring 2015

It has been a cool, dry spring. The last time we had any measurable rainfall occurred on April 23, when we had 3/4-inches of rain. The vines have been surviving on the water that was in the soil (field capacity) from the winter snow pack that we had never experienced in the 30+ years that we have lived here. Altough some of the plants were actually growing despite the lack of rain, we were concerned that the continued lack of rainfall would take it's toll on the some of the vines that we had transplanted.
Mother Nature answered our plea for rain on Sunday evening with a little sprinkle and with sporadic rainfall on Monday, June 1st accompanied by cool 50^o Fahrenheit temperature. It's still sprinkling today and cool. We'll need to check our rain gauge to determine what the rainfall was in the vineyard. I'll report back. We went to the land saw that between early Monday morning into Tuesday afternoon, we had 1-1/4 inch of rain!