Vintage 2016: Pruning Has Begun

The weather forecasters have said that the winter of 2015-2016 has been the warmest on record in Connecticut. With the exception of a few days in January and the Valentine's Day weekend, where temperatures dipped into the teens and lower with the windchill, this winter has been very mild, the polar opposite of last winter. So, we have sharpened our pruning shears and advanced ourselves into the vineyard to begin pruning.

This year my husband has procured for us a new cane tying tool called the Prothec system. It takes a little getting used to, but it is a very handy tool for securing the cane to the fruiting wire.

My husband and I were out there today, but the 25 mile an hour winds made the temperatures feel as if it was below freezing so we only managed to finish up one of the rows of our Chenin blanc that we began yesterday before mutually deciding to call it quits.