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🍇 Exciting News for Wine Grape Growers! 🍇 C4L (CultiGrow / CropBiolife) trial results in Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa, revealed: 🍃 Significant Reduction in Powdery Mildew Incidence 🍃 Include C4L as part of your strategy against powdery mildew, ensuring healthier vines and better harvests. Stay tuned for more updates on implementing C4L in your vineyard! 🌿🚀 #C4L #WineGrapes #VineyardSuccess

Happy International Sauvignon Blanc Day! Hope you're enjoying a glass of this delicious wine. If you want to learn more about why SB grows so well in Lake County, we recommend reading this Grower Spotlight featuring Dancing Crow Vineyards, one of Lake County's esteemed Sauvignon Blanc growers. “Big Valley has heavy clay in the soil and high magnesium, which means the ground retains water. Most grape varieties can’t handle having wet roots, but thankfully, Sauvignon Blanc tends to thrive in these conditions. Being at 1,400-foot elevation, with intense heat but wet soil, keeps the vines from getting over-stressed so they don’t ramp up sugar production. The high water content in the soil creates natural inhibition of sugar accumulation. There aren’t many places in California where these conditions exist. We get this curve where we have a good amount of sugar for a low alcohol wine with tons of acidity, freshness and fruit quality. That’s really hard to match!” Read more: https://bit.ly/3JP1Wri Photo credit: Karen Pavone

NYS Growers - this initiative is extremely helpful for the industry as a whole. This data will be useful for many people and organizations throughout NYS and can help give you insights to grow your farms. One real world example I can give around how beneficial this data can be is in the future wine development space. In my world, I am striving to develop new wines for our customers. As I find grape varieties that I like, knowing how many acres are planted helps me make decisions on how many cases I can launch with and if I need to start offering planting contracts to get more acres in the ground. If that data isn't available or isn't accurate I may pass on a variety that is important to you and your farm. Please take a minute to complete the survey!

Listen to what it takes to bring in the grapes that will become Paserene's finest wines. Today Martin discusses the ins and out of our harvesting processes 🍇 In our last video, we’ll discuss what happens after - stay tuned! #paserene #paserenewinefarm #pasereneharvest #harvest2024 #franschhoek #wineharvest

Do you believe a non-mandatory collection of data would achieve sufficient coverage to make the National Vineyard Register (NVR) effective? This is one of the questions we are asking in our online survey (click here) to help determine what the grape and wine sector wants and needs from the NVR. https://lnkd.in/gEfeJzyZ Please share your views on the development of this resource which will be a comprehensive database of grapevine plantings across Australia and will capture details such as grape varieties, vine age, yield, vineyard size and location. We’ve extended the feedback deadline to December 13 to find out from sector stakeholders what the NVR should look like, the data it should include and how best to collect it. We’d love to hear your thoughts. Please read the NVR consultation paper here and take a few moments to complete the online survey here. https://lnkd.in/gqmUEvr3 Or send your thoughts via email to [email protected] If you’d like to know more, contact National Vineyard Register Project Manager Sandy Hathaway at [email protected] #aussiewine #nationalvineyardregister #nvr #grapegrowing #winemaking #wineinsights #australianwine #shareyourviews

South African Wines - South Africa's 2024 Harvest Is a Small One South Africa's 2024 grape harvest witnessed a 7% decline compared to the already small harvest of the previous year. The total harvest amounted to approximately 1.1m tonnes of grapes from 88,000 ha/217,000 ac, expected to yield around 857m liters of juice, non-alcoholic concentrates, wine, and brandy. This represents the smallest harvest in the past two decades. While the reduced harvest translates to increased cost pressures for wine producers, it could potentially aid in balancing the current wine surplus #wine #wines #southafrica #southafricanwines #vinosudafricano #sudafrica #wineindustry #harvest

Harvest for Couce Vineyards is all about low quantity and high quality. During veraison the fruit clusters are reduced to 1 cluster per branch that improves the concentration which helps us later on to the harvest the best grapes possible. This takes the average vineyard yield per acre to around 1500 kg/acre. At that moment we know we have an impeccable raw material to start the production process. Tannins, sugar, acid and ripeness are the main characteristics we take into account when it comes to deciding the harvesting moment. Every time a new vine is planted, you need to wait between 3 and 5 years before its grapes are good for wine production. Ours were planted in 2011 and we started with Couce Vineyards in 2020. #argentinewine #argentinomalbec #Mandala #crescentmoon #YinandYang #MalbecMendoza #HighEndWines #UcoValley #BoutiqueWinery #notimeforbadwine #joy #wineandbusiness #Mendoza #Ucovalley #Loschacayes #CVineyards #CVwines #malbec #CouceVineyards #malbecworldday #Betterfortheworld

🌍 While the Northern Hemisphere [Bordeaux] faces low grape yields, the Southern Hemisphere is battling spring frosts. 📉 Jane Anson's latest update from Bordeaux shows that grape yields are down 10% compared to 2023 and 16% below the five-year average. This decline is due to strong mildew pressure, poor flowering, a dry summer, and a vine pulling scheme. More details here: https://lnkd.in/geyx-wB6 ❄️ Meanwhile, grape growers in several regions of Australia are struggling with significant frost damage as reported by WBM - Australia's Wine Business Magazine. ▪ For more on the frost impact in Barossa: https://lnkd.in/gPZ5iVgz ▪ And for updates on the Riverland region: https://lnkd.in/g9TTU6cg These situations highlight the uncertainty in the wine industry and the growing need for more resilient grape varieties to tackle climate change. My #PhDresearch at the University of Adelaide focuses on consumer behavior around these varieties, aiming to find solutions that not only work in the vineyard but also resonate in the market.🍇💪📊

Vineyard Update: Fruit Set

(🍷 WSET Wine Courses: https://lnkd.in/gpnMQv2D) After fertilization, the fruit begins to form 🍇. The fruit set stage follows flowering almost immediately, with the fertilized flower developing a seed and a grape berry to protect it 🌱. In the Northern Hemisphere, this happens in May, and in the Southern Hemisphere, in November. Not every flower becomes a grape, and unpollinated flowers drop off after the fruit set. If many flowers fail to fertilize, it's called coulure. Grapes that form without seeds and remain small are affected by millerandage. Both conditions can reduce yields due to cold, cloudy, or rainy weather during pollination. 🍷 WSET Wine Courses: https://lnkd.in/gpnMQv2D #wset #wineeducation #wineknowledge #napavalleywineacademy

❗Chablis is Having a Tough Vintage 🔸 Unusually wet conditions have severely impacted wine-growing regions across France this year, following years of challenges from drought and heat. In Chablis, a fungal disease known as mildew, along with episodes of frost and hail, has significantly reduced production. The French Ministry of Agriculture estimates total output at 39.3 million hectoliters, below both 2023 levels and the five-year average. 🔸 At the Lavantureux estate in Chablis, the harvest lasted just nine days—about half the usual time—with winemaker David Lavantureux calling it his most difficult year yet. Despite these challenges, the Burgundy wine association reported that Chablis wine exports to the U.S. reached 3 million bottles, generating 368 million euros ($410 million), a 19% increase compared to the previous year. More at www.Somm.Site. #wine #education #learning #hospitality #innovation #marketing #digitalmarketing #fyi