Mid summer and the end of July finds us in a good but bad situation.
The good news is the grapes have pretty much never looked better. Big full clusters, no sign of fungi, very healthy vines and tremendous growth in the heat weve had the past 3 weeks.
On the other hand we were 7-10 days late in flowering and the grape development is about 1 week behind.
Question is do we have enough heat and long enough season to get the grapes to an acceptable ripeness?
Of course we can predict that outcome but if we have a bit of an extended fall..even for a few days and the heat continues we can make up for some of the early season delay.
