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In vino veritas (1) - Kelowna, Okanagan Wine Region, Canada

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chin:
Good. Thanks for sharing the pictures and stories.

Can you tell the grape type from the look of the vine? Also their vine does not look too old. I am guessing from the thickness of the stem.

Pruning & training means how their cut out the excessive branches to concentrate on the strong ones?

hangchoi:

--- Quote from: chin on 29 June 2010, 23:16:00 ---Can you tell the grape type from the look of the vine? Also their vine does not look too old. I am guessing from the thickness of the stem.

Pruning & training means how their cut out the excessive branches to concentrate on the strong ones?

--- End quote ---

I would say "NO". You cannot tell the variety by looking to the vine, but some grape varieties do have a different shape of leaves, for example, Cabernet Sauvignon's leaves have a bigger curve on the leaf shape. But most of them don't.

You are partly right on the meaning of pruning and training. Cutting out the excessive branches for concentration is mainly done in summer, so it has a name called "green harvesting" or "summer pruning". Vine-growers also do winter pruning to reduce the branches for preserving the energy and carbohydrate so that the vine has more "food" reserve in winter. Training is the way to regulate the growth of the vine for facilitating the sun exposure, ease of harvesting, etc.

The Cordon du Royat I showed on the picture is to keep the Cordon (the horizontal thick branch) to reserve more carbohydrate, so the winter pruning will cut up to the branch of that cordon.

I have forwarded this link to some of my wine friends. Please correct me if I am wrong..... :D

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