The first image shows workers in the Pinot Noir Block. Although it has not been very warm the canes are growing rapidly and workers are positioning them between the vertical support wires. At the same time they are ‘fan tipping’ the canes, that is snapping off the tip to encourage lateral growth, more leaves, more photosynthesis and better grapes.
The Pinot Noir has almost completed flowering and it is now ’set’ which means we can estimate the crop and begin balancing the vine with the fruit.
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