The fair weather continues, so this afternoon I was able to take my traditional New Year's Day walk through Vinoland's vines. My little promenade, with the Vinodogs in tow, allowed me to make a quick assessment of what I need to do, coming up here shortly, pruning-wise. This time last year I was hoping that 2012 would be a better growing season than 2011, and it was. In fact, it couldn't have been any better if it'd tried, so I'm hoping for more of the same in 2013. Greedy? Absolutely.
As Vinoland's Cabernet Sauvignon vines mature my job becomes simpler. Of course, it has taken me several years of pruning to convince the young vines' canes and spurs to go exactly where I'd like them to go. And now, for the most part, each vine is beginning to exhibit the ideal model, or at least how the ideal vine exists in this pruners mind. Thanks little buddies.
A happy, healthy and fruit of the vine filled New Year to everyone.
3 comments:
I forecast more mud farming here....a vineyard on a green contract up in St.Helena looks more attractive by the second.
Good punning in your titles.
Thud: You're into building, build a mud hut...when life gives you lemons...
Tomasso: Thanks, but I bore myself sometimes.
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