Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Mostly Purple - Within 30 days of Harvest

We are now somewhere in the final 30 days of ripening.  In "normal" times I'd say 30 days to go, but given the early, extended bloom and current hot weather, it's hard to say how much time remains before harvest.

Clusters are much heavier than normal, with bigger berries and larger than normal berry counts.  Some raisining, in places where enlarging berries pulled stems of surrounding berries away from the main stem, and in random areas of the afternoon side of shoots that got scorched in the 2nd hot period we had that coincided with early veraison. Overall, it currently looks like a good yield of beautiful, big clusters.  A little cooling off wouldn't hurt, though.

Dijon 114:
Dijon 115:
Pommard:

Wadenswil: