Grapegrowers Expect Superb Harvest
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Posted: Sunday, 12 August 2007 4:45PM
Grape Growers Expect Superb Vintage This Year
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Less rain has produced smaller grapes in wine country this season, but brings with it bigger, fuller, and more intense wines.
Mike Wolf’s Napa Valley vineyard management company has 300 acres under contract in the Rutherford area.
“This year, nature has given us something kind of moderate, with small berries,” said Wolf. “And it’s our job to kind of finish that process.”
Smaller fruit means less juice and more skin, as well as better color and flavor for the consumers.
“The weather’s been almost ideal,” said Nick Frey, president of the Sonoma County Wine Grape Commission. “Most days in the 80s, most nights in the 50s. Ideal for developing the fruit.”
Frey, whose commission represents about 1,800 growers, said the valley is poised to produce a vintage year.
Listen KCBS’ Larry Chiaroni reports on this season’s wine grape crop Larry Chiaroni
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