Harvest 2015
Another hot year blesses the Pacific NW vineyards. In 2015 the nice weather started even earlier than in the past 3 years. This led to an early and very healthy bud break and fruit set that resulted in some of the largest and plentiful Pinot noir clusters. All signs pointed to an early harvest but the grape growers truly faced uncharted waters. In June, our vineyard manager suggested that some of the fruit in the valley might even be harvested in August this year. This is something we certainly did not want to see happen. So what could we do to slow the ripening down. We employed several strategies to reduce the nutrients that were available to the vines. ...