Pickers are picking at a couple other vineyards this week---Sauvignon Blanc at one and Pinot Gris at another, so we will also need to make those wines, though there shouldn't be much of either.
10 May 2010
Last Week
We're nearing the end of vintage, and this is the first day of my last week at the winery. The main tasks of the week will be to finish the wire-moving started on Saturday, and to remove the so-called side nets, strips of netting clipped along the bottoms of the main nets to keep the birds out gooder.
Pickers are picking at a couple other vineyards this week---Sauvignon Blanc at one and Pinot Gris at another, so we will also need to make those wines, though there shouldn't be much of either.
Pickers are picking at a couple other vineyards this week---Sauvignon Blanc at one and Pinot Gris at another, so we will also need to make those wines, though there shouldn't be much of either.
09 May 2010
Carterton
Carterton is the closest town to the vineyard.
Looks like that door could use some joinery.
Typical small-town-NZ establishments. I don't think they actually fry the chicken in kiwi (bird or fruit). Superior Meats, which can barely be made out in the back, is where you take your home-killed animals for butchering.
Requisite antique store
Looks like that door could use some joinery.
Typical small-town-NZ establishments. I don't think they actually fry the chicken in kiwi (bird or fruit). Superior Meats, which can barely be made out in the back, is where you take your home-killed animals for butchering.
Requisite antique store
08 May 2010
Afternoon in Masterton
I brought my camera this time!
I certainly will take a way a smorgasbord.
I recommend the Cafe Trocadero.
I certainly will take a way a smorgasbord.
I recommend the Cafe Trocadero.
Moving wires
I spent this morning (with another worker) lifting wires in the vineyard.
In the picture you should be able to make out a wire supporting the two horizontal canes coming from the trunk. Those ones stay put. Above that two more wires are visible (one is in front of the vine, the other behind) whose job is to contain the shoots (which would otherwise flop down). As the vines grow, wires are placed higher and higher up---there are some more out of the photo. The fruit having been picked, the vines will soon be pruned, and two shoots per vine will be chosen to be next year's canes. The wires have to be moved up and out of the way of the trimmers (they are held by clips nailed onto wooden posts). Sometimes easy, but sometimes, when they are tangled in the vines, the wires can be difficult to move.
(What's shown in the picture is vertical shoot positioning, or VSP, which is how most of the vineyard is pruned. Some of the vines are in the Scott Henry arrangement, which has four canes, with shoots going up from two and down from two.)
In the picture you should be able to make out a wire supporting the two horizontal canes coming from the trunk. Those ones stay put. Above that two more wires are visible (one is in front of the vine, the other behind) whose job is to contain the shoots (which would otherwise flop down). As the vines grow, wires are placed higher and higher up---there are some more out of the photo. The fruit having been picked, the vines will soon be pruned, and two shoots per vine will be chosen to be next year's canes. The wires have to be moved up and out of the way of the trimmers (they are held by clips nailed onto wooden posts). Sometimes easy, but sometimes, when they are tangled in the vines, the wires can be difficult to move.
(What's shown in the picture is vertical shoot positioning, or VSP, which is how most of the vineyard is pruned. Some of the vines are in the Scott Henry arrangement, which has four canes, with shoots going up from two and down from two.)
02 May 2010
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