One whole row of vines was removed and replanted with Vignoles, a white wine grape. These pictures show the trunks being cut away and the new vines are in the blue grow tubes. Because we grow more than 20 varieties of grapes we make lots of changes.

The vines made excellent growth last year and went into winter very healthy. The winter was very mild and since we did not have much winter damage we have the potential for a very large crop.

The previous two growing seasons had lots of problems and many trunks were damaged. This year most all of them were replaced and we had a huge number of dead trunks cut off and dragged out into the burn pile. These vines had 2 or 3 new canes pruned and tied up to the wire and will have a normal crop this year this year.