Vineyard Manager, Michelle Dacombe’s pre-2015 harvest Blog Update
It’s a long time since my first week at Misha’s Vineyard – and a lot has happened! After a cooler, drier and windier spring than we have had in a while, we finally had some growth on our canopy in late November. December saw a very successful flowering period and some stunning weather throughout the month. In January we started our crop load adjustments which is where we remove bunches so that we’re ripening just the amount of fruit we require to ensure high quality yields (and not high quantity) and we trimmed the canopy and did a lot of leaf plucking to ensure we expose the fruit to the sun for good ripening. In February was all go with putting on the bird nets and now in mid-March we can finally breathe out and let the vines slowly ripen the crop.
