Perhaps the single most impactful and devastating series of events from the 2017 Napa vintage were October’s wine country fires. As the final presenter of …
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Perhaps the single most impactful and devastating series of events from the 2017 Napa vintage were October’s wine country fires. As the final presenter of …
We are wrapping up the summary of the 2017 Vintage report with the last session focussing on Phenolic extraction presented by Federico Casassa. Overview of …
Continuing with the 2017 Napa Vintage Report presentation summaries, today’s article is focused on winegrape phenology with Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, and ripening dynamics with Nicolas Bernard. Modeling the future …
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 …
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 …
Harvest decision 2017: A ripe Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa “should be worth the wait!” We discuss a preliminary analysis of the 2017 vintage effect on …
Today, we review some of the aspects of the 2017 growing season in Napa. While Bordeaux suffered some very serious frost events earlier this year, …
As Bordeaux region is entering into summer, overall flowering stages went smoothly and the leaf area operations are undergoing under good weather conditions. At this …
As we begin this wet, cool 2017 growing season, shoot growth appears to be in slow motion. With heat predicted next week we will no …
As we are now seeing bud break at many California vineyards, it is important to compare the climatic conditions this year with prior years in …