Vintage 2025: May Day!

It is already May! The April showers really put us behind in our pruning duties and we are working as fast as we can to lay our canes down on the fruiting wire. With the exception of the Cabernet Sauvignon, all of our varieties are at some stage of budbreak:

Budbreak appears to be a little on the early side this year. It could be because of the way we approached our pruning this year, taking off all of the unnecessary growth from last year, leaving behind only the canes that we were considering as this year's fruiting cane. So, all of the energy was concentrated in the few remaining canes.
At this time of the year, we always keep our fingers crossed hoping that we don't have another year like 2023 when we had a frost on May 18th. As of today, we have finished laying down our canes for half of our vineyard!

We hope the weather gods grant us some nice weather for the upcoming week although by the looks of it, we might have to work under rainy conditions!