Wine Dreams

As spring comes forth, we are eagerly awaiting the delivery of our baby vines, also known as dormant bench grafts which will be planted in our vineyard and become our grape vines.  We expect that our vines will be delivered sometime in the next month or so.  The concern is that after we plant the vines and they begin to grow we will still have frost which could kill our babies.  So we will wait until there is little chance that frost will occur prior to planting the vines.

Once our vines are in the ground, it will be a minimum of three growing seasons before we have a commercial crop of grapes.  The first few years we will focus on building a solid root system, similar to building a foundation for a house, building or even a financial foundation.  You really want it to be solid.  We will drop any fruit produced in the second year and keep the fruit to a minimum in the third year.  Our goal is to build long term quality not just a quick fix.