PV is beginning to make some waves here. It's all about making use of some technological analyses to help a vineyard produce better grapes. If you're not a techie (as I am not), it's a little mind-boggling the first go around. But don't be a Luddite. Don't be afraid of ...

apres un crash des serveurs de blogspirit, vous pouvez retrouver l'album photo des vendanges qui vient d'etre remis en ligne. pour le vin, pour l'instant, ça se présente plutot bien, le rosé et les rouges semblent etre de qualité. nous allons bientot etre fixés sur leur sort et bien entendu, ...

depuis quelques temps, je n'ai pas mis beaucoup de nouveautés sur le site, car j'ai alterné les bonnes et les mauvaises nouvelles. j'ai subi tout un tas de catastrophes mineures, mais le moral reste entier, et oublions les mauvaises choses pour consacrer son énergie aux bonnes nouvelles. des le debut ...

Spring is certainly in the air on the Gherardi vineyard. The weather is warming up, the vines are putting on more growth and the birds and bees are becoming active. We are fortunate to have an abundance of bird life around our garden and vineyard which means insects are kept ...

    Two weeks ago I attended a workshop, run by AHA Viticulture , on “Bud Fruitfulness & Bud Dissection” with a view to understanding how having buds dissected at this time of the year can assist with a grower’s decision on pruning method as well as how many buds to leave. We all know that next seasons yield has pretty much been determined by the weather conditions experienced the previous...

Last Friday, April 7, a controlled burn by the Department of Conservation & Land Management of Western Australia (CALM) was anything but controlled. What was supposed to be a small burn resulted in a major bush fire with a large area of the Leeuwin Naturaliste Ridge national park being burnt. ...

I’ve been immersing myself in precision viticulture (PV) these past two weeks, trying to figure out ... focused entirely on Australian Viticulture. Article on Precision Viticulture by the Carl Sagan ... of precision throughout your vineyard. In our case, where we find vigor is excessivly high we will continue ... mentioned the cost of a nice GPS unit with differential correction and sub-meter precision so...

My last post on precision viticulture sparked some interesting discussion in the comments. I thought it was great, and the opinions voiced are certainly indicative of the majority of the industry so I thought I’d highlight them here. The first comment was by my friend Morgan, who is currently ... commissioned by the Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture. In the Executive Summary the authors note...

The warmer weather of spring awakens vines out of their winter dormancy.  Usually it is the early varieties which burst first or those sites which have a northerly aspect and manage to capture the sun and the warmth at this time of the year. Generally around Margaret River bud burst ...

After the hail storm I took the time to look through the vines and the Merlot appears to have taken the hardest hit.  Actually, prior to the the storm I had already been through two thirds of the block shoot thinning.  That is removing shoots without bunches and those causing ...