2025 Annual Cycle of Growth

Every year, I try to keep track of the major events in the grapevine cycle. This is captured in a table called the Annual Cycle of Growth. Here is what we saw last year. I am also filling out the approximate date of budbreak for 2025.

The annual cycle of growth for 2024 is rather incomplete because we had an unusual ripening or should I say "unripening" year in 2024. In last July, our vines were hit with a terrible case of downy mildew in the Chardonnay. The problem was not that severe in the Auxerrois and the Chenin Blanc but for the first time, we needed to drop grapes in the Chenin Blanc in order to get the Brix to be at 20-21 degrees.
With all of the rain that we are having this year, the new shoots are growing like we have never seen before!
Photos to come.