How Farming Influences Wine Quality at Pride Mountain Vineyards
Farming is likely the most underappreciated of the leading-order influences on wine quality. Most wine consumers and even wine professionals, including winemakers, are not aware of the way that specific farming practices influence and even create specific characteristics of the resulting wine. The only way to obtain such insight is to form hypotheses as you keenly observe your vines over decades, perform experiments in the field that test your ideas and then monitor the wines made in the same way from vineyard blocks that are farmed in different ways. Not everybody making fine wine goes through such time-consuming efforts. I’d like to share here some of what I have learned over the 20 years that I have been directing our farming operations here at Pride Mountain Vineyards. --- Steve Pride
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