Will The Weather Affect The Grape Harvest?

[Frank-the-Wool]

With an ever increasing acreage of vines and large amounts of money invested in them, this year could be very tricky for them.
I looked at a couple of vineyards in the last week and the grapes that were set looked very small and I would guess that the continuous damp will also cause mildew problems.

They normally need a warm September to make them ripen with enough sugars for decent wine, at present this is looking very unlikely.

 

[Kidds]

the continuous damp will also cause mildew problems.

Mildew is a disease of dry weather, botrytis is a wet weather fungus.

Besides that, where is all this wet weather so often mentioned on here lately?
It has been dry here for ages. Had rain a week last Saturday and nothing since, prior to that was dry. Was digging down to some drains this week that I have problems with and it was dust down to 6-7 feet.

 

[Bogweevil]

With an ever increasing acreage of vines and large amounts of money invested in them, this year could be very tricky for them.
I looked at a couple of vineyards in the last week and the grapes that were set looked very small and I would guess that the continuous damp will also cause mildew problems.

They normally need a warm September to make them ripen with enough sugars for decent wine, at present this is looking very unlikely.

Fair crops hereabout despite late frosts, but cool, dull weather now in SE and slow growth in wet, cool early summers means crop will be late and unless unusually bright, dry and warm in Octobers quality will suffer.

 

[Daddy Pig]

another concern is will they be able to get enough pickers for harvest, our neighbour has 60 acres of apples and I just don't know how they will get on this year, last year the pickers had to carry a bit of cardboard with two different size holes in it, the apples had to be big enough to fit through the large hole but not fit through the small hole, this process took so long that they ran out of time and a lot of fruit was left to rot.

 

[Kidds]

last year the pickers had to carry a bit of cardboard with two different size holes in it, the apples had to be big enough to fit through the large hole but not fit through the small hole, this process took so long that they ran out of time and a lot of fruit was left to rot.

Give pickers a measure and they measure every single apple, even the ones that are obviously out of size.
My pickers got a measure for the morning with instructions to get used to it as the measures were going after lunch. You will get out of size apples after that but that is the supervisors job to correct.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Mildew is a disease of dry weather, botrytis is a wet weather fungus.

Besides that, where is all this wet weather so often mentioned on here lately?
It has been dry here for ages. Had rain a week last Saturday and nothing since, prior to that was dry. Was digging down to some drains this week that I have problems with and it was dust down to 6-7 feet.

It has been dry but continuously damp with drizzle and heavy dews that leave things dripping. Grass has gone rusty now.

 

[Oliveau]

I'm going to see one of my wine suppliers next week, but I suspect that there will be 3 problems this year:
Late spring frost which killed a lot of the flowers
Wet summer giving rise to disease
Lack of sunshine so sugars will be way down

All in all, not a year to be buying wine as I think the quality is going to suffer.

 

[kfpben]

Sugars will be well down due to the cool, cloudy Aug/Sept.
We avoided any major frost damage here this year as bud burst was so late.

 

[le bon paysan]

I'm going to see one of my wine suppliers next week, but I suspect that there will be 3 problems this year:
Late spring frost which killed a lot of the flowers
Wet summer giving rise to disease
Lack of sunshine so sugars will be way down

All in all, not a year to be buying wine as I think the quality is going to suffer.

Mrs has just ordered from our Vigneron up on the Loire. Will be last years

 

[Av Gorritt]

At last , a posting about the important things in life

 

[Oliveau]

I think I will do the same before stocks run out.
Would you like me to pop up to your vigneron and sample your order just to make sure it’s acceptable?
Incidently who is your vigneron?

 

[le bon paysan]

I think I will do the same before stocks run out.
Would you like me to pop up to your vigneron and sample your order just to make sure it’s acceptable?
Incidently who is your vigneron?

We always get the Cabernet d'anjou
http://www.vignoble-de-la-gauterie.fr/en/
Etienne drops it himself