Beautiful Vineyards Around The World

Modern Wine Making

The quest for vineyard efficiency has produced a wide range of systems and techniques. Due to the often much more fertile New World growing conditions, attention has focussed heavily on managing the vines more vigorous growth. Innovation in palissage (training of the vine, usually along a trellis, and often referred to as canopy management) and pruning and thinning methods (which aim to optimize the Leaf Area/Fruit (LA/F) ratio relative to a vineyards microclimate) have largely replaced more general, traditional concepts like yield per unit area in favor of maximizing yield of desired quality. Many of these new techniques have since been adopted in place of traditional practice in the more progressive of the so-called Old World vineyards.

Other recent practices include spraying water on vines to protect them from sub-zero temperatures (aspersion), new grafting techniques, soil slotting, and mechanical harvesting. Such techniques have made possible the development of wine industries in New World countries such as Canada. Today there is increasing interest in developing organic, ecologically sensitive and sustainable vineyards. Biodynamics has become increasingly popular in viticulture. The use of drip irrigation in recent years has expanded vineyards into areas which were previously unplantable. As a consequence of irrigation, yields are more consistent and vintage years virtually irrelevant.

21. Chelan Vineyards Washington, United States

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