Woods Wine Backyard Vineyard and Home Winery

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Deer Me 9-21-2011

The video below provides a pre-harvest update of the Woods Wine Vineyard, and a couple of four legged visitors. The grapes are between 16 and 18 Brix, depending on the cultivar. Harvest is scheduled for 9/30 and 10/1.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Labor Day Harvest and Stomp....

Today, Nancy and I harvested the grapes above the deck , and then Nancy stomped them.... soooo much fun! in this first video, Nancy thought I was trying to get some good pics, when in actuality, I was video taping her...

Better than sand at the beach...

Her feet smell good...

Here are more pics of the harvest and crush:

Friday, August 12, 2011

Micro Vineyard Seminar - CCE - 8-11-2011

I attended a Micro - Vineyard seminar sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension. There was a lot of interesting information including site prep, cultivar selection, trellis styles, and pesticide application.

In the pic below, we were given a demonstration of small vineyard spraying equipment options.

This is a typical backpack sprayer...

This backpack "air-blast" sprayer was the star of the show...

This is a pick of a "CF" valve (red), which smooths out the uneven pressure such as that encountered with pumping a backpack sprayer.

Found a volunteer to demo it's use (only water is in the tank):

Gas engine powered...

Made in Italy...

Provides a nice blast that gives good canopy penetration and small droplet size.

User commented that he should have had ear protection on...

Easy to control...

Uses less pesticide...

You still need to spray both sides of the canopy...

This is a Herbicide applicator... I think there would be a lot of misting and drift so a spray shield should be used in a manicured backyard vineyard... if it should be used at all...