California Wine Harvest Warms Up
California Wine Harvest Warms Up
Sep 16, 2010 6
Picking starts late for still wines, as sparkling wine harvest wraps up.With grapes for sparkling wine largely picked, growers up and down California are just starting to harvest grapes for still wine. Most appellations report the grapes are one to two weeks behind average, yield is down from average (and way down from last year’s bumper crop) and quality is good with light disease and pest pressure. Some areas diverge from the average, however.Here's a look at the progress of the growing season in nine major winegrowing districts.
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