What’s cooking? How early heat stress affects your harvest
What’s cooking? How early heat stress affects your vineyard By Loni Lyttle and Mark Greenspan Heat stress can do a lot of damage, and in many ways the earlier it hits, the worse it’s going to be. Here in Sonoma County, we got hit hard in June with a heat wave. We recorded cluster-zone air […]
Fear not! Potassium is your friend
Fear not! Potassium is your friend Holding off on K fertilization may be damaging your wine quality There’s a lot of headbutting between grape growers and winemakers. I get why. Lush green canopies with active shoot tips mid-July look pretty, but they don’t usually make good wine. On the other hand, leaner vines with drastically […]
