It is July Muscat time already. When I got home from work last night, Vinomaker suggested that I take a peek at Vinoland's table grapes. Confound it, not that I'm an expert or anything, but I'd say that my one, white table grapevine is going through budbreak. Sigh.
In my haste, last weekend, to prune through as much of the Syrah as I possibly could I didn't even think to check the table grapes. There are three table grape vines in Vinoland; July Muscat, Crimson Seedless and Red Globe. The budwood for these vines came from a small demonstration vineyard that used to grow alongside the student vineyard at Napa Valley College (alas, bulldozed out years ago), so I am a tad sentimentally attached to these vines. The three vines are prolific producers, most years bearing more fruit than Vinomaker and I can eat ourselves, so we share. I will be pruning this vine today to ensure we have an abundance of table grapes in the summer.
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Thursday, March 03, 2016
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