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 …
ETS Laboratories smoke taint research
Category: Vintage Update
Phenolic Extraction by Federico Casassa
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 …
Winegrape phenology & ripening dynamics
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 …
2017 Climatic Conditions in Napa, and What We Can Prepare for in 2018
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 …
Sluggish ripening dynamics: who is the culprit in 2017 in Northern California?
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 …
2017: Vintage Effect on Harvest Decision for Napa Cabernet
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 …
2017: Napa Vintage – Heatwaves during the early stages
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, …
Bordeaux 2017 : an unusual spring with extreme temperature
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 …
Thoughts on spring 2017 – Daniel Baron
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 …
Napa 2016: Analysis of climate conditions before bud break
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 …