Posts in Grape Growing

It is late spring here in Lake Chelan, Washington. We are in the Northern Hemisphere. I am reminding you about this because growing seasons are different in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Here, our growing season is pretty much March to the end of October.

Grape GrowingHeatherJuly 15, 2019House of Nefarious, Lake Chelan, Nefarious, Nefarious Cellars, pruning, shoot thinning, vineyard, wine, winemaking, winery, winery near me

PRUNING IN THE VINEYARD

We're going to be pruning in the vineyard today, and at Nefarious, we do something called two bud pruning. We do this for a reason. Each one of the buds on these canes will produce a tendril or a shoot. Our ideal scenario is when these shoots have come up, that we've got about four inches, or about a fist, between every one of these shoots that comes out of the bud.

Grape GrowingHeatherApril 30, 2019vineyard

VINEYARD SERIES: JANUARY

This is the first video in a year-long series we will be doing in the vineyard. This is so that you can come to understand what happens in a single growing season. It is January here in Lake Chelan. Some years we have snow on the ground, other years it looks just like it does right now.

Grape GrowingHeatherJanuary 8, 2019grapevine, grapevines, january, pruning vines, shoots, the vineyard, vineyard, vineyard near me

IN THE VINES WITH NETTING

We only have a little more than 300 acres of vines planted in this valley, and it's a big fruit production area. (apples and pears!) The birds are naturally drawn here. The bird netting is just one of those things about making wine in Lake Chelan. If we don't put up this bird netting to protect our grapes, we won't have any come harvest time. So that is what is the deal here. When you see this in another region, you know that they too are suffering from too many of those friendly creatures. That's really all there is to it.

Grape GrowingStacy WilloughbyNovember 13, 2018good red wine, good white wine, grape varieties, learn about wine, netting, vineyards world wines, wine tasting, wine tasting near me, wine terminology

Sep 13, 2018

TYPES OF WINE, VARIETALS, SIMPLY EXPLAINED

Have you ever heard the term varietal and not known what that meant? I'm going to explain it to you in terms that are a little easier to understand and relate it to something familiar.

Jul 16, 2018

OLD WORLD VS. NEW WORLD

Have you heard the terms old world and new world when people talk about wine? It’s actually pretty simple when we break it down. Take a peek at this video we created.

Jun 21, 2018

WHAT IS THE BEST TEMPERATURE FOR WINE?

If you are uncertain of what is just the right temperature for serving wine, this is the video for you. We promise that at the end of this you will be able to confidently serve up your favorite wines just like a winemaker would.