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A place where grape vines are grown for wine making purposes. Vintage The year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested. When a vintage year is indicated on a label, it signifies that all the grapes used to make the wine in the bottle were harvested in that year. Viticulture The cultivation of grapes. Not to be confused with viniculture.
In some wine regions, such as France, the exact number of buds is outlined by Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) regulations. During the summer growing season, pruning can involve removing young plant shoots or excess bunches of grapes with green harvesting. Vine training systems utilize the practice of trellising and pruning in order to ...
The concept of pruning for quality over quantity emerged, mainly through Cistercian labors, though it would create conflict between the rich landowners who wanted higher quality wines and the peasant laborers whose livelihood depended on the quantity of wine they could sell. [24] The Riesling is the famous example for higher quality of wine. In ...
Botanical Name: Weigela spp. Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade. Soil Type: Well-draining, rich. Weigela are pretty flowering shrubs with pink, white, red, or yellow blooms that appear in spring ...
In Bordeaux, the pruning of the vine happens almost always as cane-pruning (as opposed to spur-pruning). There are two types of cane-pruning: guyot simple and guyot double. The simple way is frequently seen on the right bank, double most often on the left. Related to pruning is the trellising, where vines are
Weigela / w aɪ ˈ dʒ iː l ə / [2] is a genus of between six and 38 species [3] of deciduous shrubs in the family Caprifoliaceae, growing to 1–5 m (3–15′) tall. All are natives of eastern Asia .
Prune junipers during the growing season, not during the coldest part of winter, preferably in early spring, before new growth starts. Use bypass pruners or loppers and cut branches at a 45-degree ...
The trunk of a grape vine trained along wires with one cordon extending horizontally to the left. The vine is the main part of the grapevine, extending from the root system in the ground up to the cordons, or arms, of the vine.