We are partway through February, and it’s been fairly mild, with warm days but cold nights. Grape growers don’t want unseasonably warm weather to persist in the dead of winter,
The Fosterville vineyard is bare from our first frost/freeze of the fall season on Monday, Nov. 13. This was 166 days since the last freeze on May 18, which damaged
The 2023 harvest is officially in the books, we just pressed out our cabernet franc. It is typically the last grape we pick, allowing it to fully ripen before the
It’s hard to believe we are more than halfway through harvest — it seems like we just experienced the May 18 freeze, but here we are picking grapes and making