The long hot months of endless sunshine have brought a good crop of grapes although some have suffered with the TOTAL lack of rain, and the only water has come from the irrigation which has to moderate as the village water supply is also suffering. We are...
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The temperture continues to be around the high 20's to 30ish now for over a month and apart from a couple of localised thunderstorms still no rain, thankfully our water supply is holding up but we have to be careful.
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Things are in full swing in the vineyard and the veg dept is working as well with the spuds up and salad crops arriving - tomatoes.This is a screen grab from video of the full vineyard and shows a mix of Pigato (white wwine) grapes and Ormesaco (Red Wine)...
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Third week of May and we have had wall to wall sunshine, great but it brings a sting in the tail as we had very little rain and no snow over the winter so it looks like water will be scarce this summer as the springs dry up, not every cloud has a silver l...
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After planting 300 new vines they are starting to put of growth, these are grafted vines onto a virus reistant root stock.
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These vines are grafted on a Amercian vine type that is resistent to infection which is the green wax covering the actual graft of the local vine type - lots of love, sun, water and luck now.
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Well after two months of work from the initial general pruning to the final pruning into the the single guyoy method we use and tieing into place on the wires we are now ready for the first bursts of life to start the season
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