To ensure the quality of wine, you must start with quality fruit. Good wine can be made from grapes bad. So let that understanding to discuss what to do in your vineyard to help ensure fruit quality.
The grape is agriculture … You know, agriculture and as such there are a number of established and proven procedures to follow. Sometimes, when the vines are dormant (January-March) should be pruned vines. I guess a parent or a vertical cord trained. Use the materials green tie tape, but do not use the strip of ½ inch. OK … Now, take a short break. Drink a little wine! It is very important that your irrigation system vineyard is independent of all other landscape watering. You will not have water in your wine you like other water parks, and vice versa. Be alert for first sign of green growth. When growth begins when you start back to work. When you break the button to observe, record the date, and record high temperatures during the day. Assuming that it is less than 90 degrees is the time to your regular routine to start spraying sulfur. This is an essential process and no spraying of sulfur is the biggest problem that the quality of your fruit. If you choose not to spray sulfur on a consistent basis, you can count on losing some of your crops against mildew. Powdery mildew can not stick it out and start over 90 degrees, so you can stop the spraying. However, if you do not spray higher temperatures without unnecessary damage already done by powdery mildew. Continue to run and inspect your vines a few days. Your goal now is to catch problems like unwanted insect outbreaks and / or worms. Hand panel of veraison (berries begin to turn from green to red), you want fruit drop too. Always the best and the closest cluster to the stem of the vine. Be warned that most of the culture (keeping too much fruit) can lead to a poorer quality of your fruit harvest, then just use some common sense.
A warning if you drive a hedger, it is very easy to cut. Remember that you’ll want to stop all water vineyard 6 to 8 weeks before harvest. Development in the Vineyard we normally expect to harvest (based on the brix, or course) are somewhere in the first three weeks of September. With just a little care you need good grapes and good wine!