Calendar of Vineyard Operations Flashcards

Question

For vineyard sampling, would you stay with the same chosen vines?

Answer 1

To balance the leaf/fruit ratio?

Answer 2

bud rubbing, frost protection, shoot thinning, wire lifting, trimming, irrigation, leaf plucking, hail protection, bird protection, crop or fruit thinning, herbicide and fungicide spraying

Answer 3

Regulate load and balance the leaf/fruit ratio Decrease crowding of the foliage Facilitates winter pruning Do it after risk of spring frosts

Answer 4

Open up canopy (for the risk of late blight and botrytis) Decrease in wounds (for risk of wood diseases) Facilitates winter pruning and the operations of lifting, trellising, and harvesting Do early to mid-summer. If you do it too early, you get regrowth. If you do it too late, it is more difficult.

Answer 5

To grow a new vine or bring down the head of a vine

Answer 6

To maintain the canopy in the vertical plane. For interception of light by leaves. Aeration and cluster illumination. Facilitates passage of tractors and machinery. Late May to early July (1 or 2 times)

Answer 7

To improve spray coverage Reduce susceptibility to diseases Facilitate passage of tractors carbohydrate partitioning towards inflorescences Reducing evapotranspiration (from effects of drought) For vineyard blocks sensitive to colour, do around late flowering. For other vineyard blocks, do as late as posssible.

Answer 8

flood irrigation over-head irrigation drip irrigation sub-surface irrigation

Answer 9

Flowering and veraison

Answer 10

For the effect on microclimate and maturation of clusters: temperature, aeration, sunshine Improved synthesis of polyphenols in red wine and thiol aromas in white wine. To save time for manual harvesting To decrease the risk of botrytis and powdery mildew Do early (fruit set)(progressive exposition limits risk of scalding) Do late (near maturity)(saves 30% of time for manual harvesting)

Answer 11

Aspiration, forced air, burning

Answer 12

To improve leaf/fruit ratio Limit clustering of bunches and botrytis Do it after fruit set and until veraison

Answer 13

Due to the compensation formula (the remaining berries grow larger), the yields do not decrease in the same proportions as the elimination of the clusters

Answer 14

You have a problem of vigor

Answer 15

Punctual: in connection with the flower initiation of the previous year or very good conditions of flowering and fruit set Recurrent: a problem of vigor

Answer 16

Testing: berry tasting maturity checks technological maturity phenolic maturity health status of the crop weather conditions concerning winery capacity respect for the specifications of the appellation

Answer 17

1. can sort in the vineyard 2. opportunity to remove diseased bunches 3. the rachis stays connected so there is minimum free run juice 4. very detailed picking of blocks 5. less sorting in already congested winery 6. possibility to do whole bunch pressing 7. no need to purchase harvester 8. simple logistics

Answer 18

slow, expensive, difficult to find staff when needed, destemming is needed at winery, ergonomically difficult as vines are low

Answer 19

fast, modern machines maintain fruit quality, comfortable, few staff needed

Answer 20

fruit will not be as good as hand harvested high money lay-out depend on contractors to show up when needed high quality staff needed more complex/expensive logistics for transporting fruit more oxidation (need sulfur)

Answer 21

control weeds improve soil structure improve water supply improve the mineralization of OM

Answer 22

to master vigor of vine and achieve desired balance between canopy, yield, and quality

Answer 23

soil analyses foliar and petiolar analyses at flowering or veraison foliage observation

Answer 24

To be in the vineyard on a regular basis to see what is happening and even more important is to take good records.

Answer 25

You force the roots to go deeper