Introduction Vines with too much yield are often maturing too slowly or producing a fruit of suboptimal quality for wine. A typical practice to reduce yield …
Can early defoliation improve fruit and wine quality from high yielding vines?

Introduction Vines with too much yield are often maturing too slowly or producing a fruit of suboptimal quality for wine. A typical practice to reduce yield …
The 2017 Napa Vintage Report kicked off with Gregory V. Jones PhD., Director of Wine Education and professor and research climatologist in the Department of Environmental …
The Cool Night Index The Cool Night Index was created to study nocturnal conditions of grapes ripening according to the different wine-making regions (Tonietto, 1999 …
This discussion is a follow up with our last blog on the 2017 maturation What is the situation end of september? A general disorder in sugar …
If you read this blog you are probably interested in understanding the complexity of vine response to contrasted environmental conditions. Everyday scientific results shed new …
Phenolics within the grape play an important role in a wine’s sensorial properties, such as color, astringency, mouthfeel, and bitterness. For example, increasing the size …
Temperature management has a direct impact on fruit quality. According to Bonada et al. (2015), high temperature may affect the degree to which water deficit …
The Jan-Feb issue of Vineyard & Winery Management provided an interesting discussion of a familiar, yet hard-to-quantify concept in the wine industry: terroir. The article …