We had a great year for growing this year and despite the 8 week drought in late September to mid-September the vines did great. We had about 1030 C degree days growing.
They have had 5 full growing seasons in the soil now and must have good roots, especially in the Ravat 34 and Leon Millot that have been around the longest.
The wasps were the biggest factor in Harvest and they took virtually all the Lucy Kuhlman and Colmar Precoce Noir. These are among the earliest grapes we have. However, the Evangeline (KW96-2) is really early and we picked it on September 8th at 18brix and 2.9ph as we did not have enough wasp netting to cover them. They are among the the latest to bud out and the latest to flower and the earliest to harvest with giant juicy bunches of grapes. We left a few Evangeline bunches in hopes that the wasps would miss those and then we could see the numbers at full ripeness.
Some of the numbers we got this year harvested Oct 5 as follows;
Variety Brix PH
Leon Millot 22 3.2
Ravat 34 18 3.0
Acadie Blanc 19 3.0
Petite Milo 22 3.1
Evangeline 21 3.3
Castel 22 n/a
Foch 21 n/a
Triompe 21 n/a
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The Vine House - Arrow Lakes Vineyard is located on 32 acres of land situated above the Arrow Lakes near the town of Edgewood, BC. The terraced land overlooks the Sangrida and Mista Peaks of the Selkirk Mountain Range in southern British Columbia. The vineyard has sandy to silty sand soil, a 6a climate, and about 150-160 frost free days with 1000-1100 DDG celsius of heat. We grow cold hardy disease resistant hybrids and use no pesticides or fungicides on our grapes.
