Vintage 2021: Approaching the End of June

We are nearing the end of June and this month has brought flowering and fruitset. We have also seen our canopy take off like we have never seen before. Like good vineyard parents, we provide our vines with all the best training accoutrement, but the vines prefer to grow outside of the catch wires so a good amount of our time is spent shoot tucking the errant growth and cleaning around the graft union to allow for air flow. These are photos of our Chenin Blanc before and after shoot tucking.

Here is another photo taken on June 22, of the Chenin Blanc with the canopy above the last catch wire and the Chenin Blanc at berry set.

While our focus was on the Chenin Blanc, the Cabernet Sauvignon decided to get out of hand so we turned our focus on the taming of the Cabernet Sauvignon. These are photos taken on June 27.

The Cabernet Sauvignon vines are getting older, we have never seen flowers that look so large.

There will be more of the same work for us today and into July as shoot tucking is an ongoing activity.