Several years ago, Phil Freese of Mondavi said this to me, and I have never forgotten it. It is another critical lesson I have followed year after year with great success. As most growers are aware, there seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to irrigating your…

This is one of the most important lessons I learned over the last 20 years of growing ultra-premium wine grapes. Regardless of where they came from or how they got here, our wine grape vines have been producing mature fruit for millions of years….a lot longer than we.  And they…