Author: Robert White Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 1486307396 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance. It covers the inherent and dynamic properties of soil health, how to choose which soil properties to monitor, how to monitor soil and vine performance, and how vineyard management practices affect soil health, fruit composition and wine sensory characters. It also covers the basic tenets of sustainable winegrowing and their significance for business resilience in the face of a changing climate. This book will be of practical value to anyone growing grapevines, managing a vineyard or making wine, from the small individual grower to the large wine company employee. It will be of special interest to winegrowers employing organic, natural or biodynamic methods of production, where the primary focus is on the biological health of the soil.
Author: Robert White Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING ISBN: 148630740X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance. It covers the inherent and dynamic properties of soil health, how to choose which soil properties to monitor, how to monitor soil and vine performance, and how vineyard management practices affect soil health, fruit composition and wine sensory characters. It also covers the basic tenets of sustainable winegrowing and their significance for business resilience in the face of a changing climate. This book will be of practical value to anyone growing grapevines, managing a vineyard or making wine, from the small individual grower to the large wine company employee. It will be of special interest to winegrowers employing organic, natural or biodynamic methods of production, where the primary focus is on the biological health of the soil.
Author: Molly McIlquham Publisher: ISBN: Category : Grapes Languages : en Pages : 0
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Soil health in vineyards describes the ability of the soil to resist disturbances, like large wind and rain events, improve the efficiency of nutrient use, minimizing excess losses to the environment, and grow a healthy crop while also benefiting the surrounding landscape. With repeated measurements, vineyard managers can track changes in soil health over time. Building on soil fertility and soil quality concepts, soil health encompasses the feedback between soil organisms and soil physical and chemical properties. Each of the indicators described in this article measure soil health individually but ultimately are all connected.
Author: Robert E. White Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190266538 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 289
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The first edition of Understanding Vineyard Soils has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of soil topics relevant to viticulture. However, the industry is dynamic--new developments are occurring, especially with respect to measuring soil variability, managing soil water, possible effects of climate change, rootstock breeding and selection, monitoring sustainability, and improving grape quality and the "typicity" of wines. All this is embodied in an increased focus on the terroir or "sense of place" of vineyard sites, with greater emphasis being placed on wine quality relative to quantity in an increasingly competitive world market. The promotion of organic and biodynamic practices has raised a general awareness of "soil health", which is often associated with a soil's biology, but which to be properly assessed must be focused on a soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. This edition of White's influential book presents the latest updates on these and other developments in soil management in vineyards. With a minimum of scientific jargon, Understanding Vineyard Soils explains the interaction between soils on a variety of parent materials around the world and grapevine growth and wine typicity. The essential chemical and physical processes involving nutrients, water, oxygen and carbon dioxide, moderated by the activities of soil organisms, are discussed. Methods are proposed for alleviating adverse conditions such as soil acidity, sodicity, compaction, poor drainage, and salinity. The pros and cons of organic viticulture are debated, as are the possible effects of climate change. The author explains how sustainable wine production requires winegrowers to take care of the soil and minimize their impact on the environment. This book is a practical guide for winegrowers and the lay reader who is seeking general information about soils, but who may also wish to pursue in more depth the influence of different soil types on vine performance and wine character.
Author: Barrett Williams Publisher: Barrett Williams ISBN: Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
**The Pinot Noir Vineyard Manager's Handbook Crafting Excellence in Every Vine** Unlock the secrets to managing a top-tier Pinot Noir vineyard with *The Pinot Noir Vineyard Manager's Handbook*. This essential guide is meticulously crafted to transform your vineyard into a masterpiece of viticulture, ensuring your Pinot Noir vines flourish under expert stewardship. Dive into the world of vineyard microclimates with comprehensive insights on understanding and mapping unique environmental factors that influence Pinot Noir. Harness the principles of soil health management and discover the specific soil types that bring out the best in your grapes. Explore precision viticulture techniques using cutting-edge GPS and remote sensing technologies for unrivaled vineyard management precision. Master the art of canopy management with detailed discussions on training systems, pruning techniques, and maintaining optimal leaf removal for vine health. Perfect your irrigation strategies with efficient systems, soil moisture monitoring, and drought management techniques tailored specifically for Pinot Noir. Stay ahead of threats with integral disease and pest management strategies, incorporating both organic and synthetic solutions, and ensure your vineyard’s health through vigilant monitoring. Embrace the benefits of vineyard biodiversity by encouraging beneficial wildlife and managing competing flora, enhancing both the ecosystem and grape quality. Learn the intricacies of harvest timing and techniques to determine the perfect moment for picking, ensuring the highest grape quality post-harvest. Develop rigorous grape quality standards and understand their impact on winemaking, with techniques to continually improve your crop. Integrate sustainable practices to minimize your vineyard’s carbon footprint, manage water resources efficiently, and navigate certification and compliance effortlessly. From cost analysis to funding, investment, and risk management, streamline your vineyard’s financial health. Enhance your labor management strategies with tips on hiring, training, and compliance with vineyard-specific regulations. Elevate your vineyard’s market presence through effective branding, direct-to-consumer sales, and promotional events, tapping into the lucrative world of wine tourism. Stay informed on future trends with chapters on viticulture innovations, climate adaptation, and evolving consumer preferences, preparing your vineyard for a resilient future. Delve into insightful case studies from successful Pinot Noir vineyards worldwide, extracting valuable lessons and best practices. *The Pinot Noir Vineyard Manager's Handbook* is your gateway to mastering the complexities of vineyard management, ensuring your Pinot Noir vines produce exceptional, world-class wine. Start your journey to vineyard excellence today.
Author: Ted Goldammer Publisher: ISBN: 9780967521251 Category : Grape industry Languages : en Pages : 482
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"Updated and revised to keep pace with developments, the third edition of Grape Grower's Handbook: a Guide to Viticulture for Wine Production is meant to be a stand-alone publication that describes all aspects of wine grape production. The book is written in a nontechnical format designed to be practical and well-suited for vineyard applications."--Back cover.
Author: Julia Harding MW Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192644807 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 2734
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Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume! The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, academia, technology, and regulations to people and places, tasting, writing, and the language of wine. The system of cross-references takes the reader from one entry to another, showing how all these topics are interconnected in the fascinating story of wine in its most traditional and modern forms. This new fifth edition, which benefits from the knowledge and experience of over one hundred new contributors, all experts in their field or geographical region, is expanded by 272 new entries, and every existing entry has been reviewed, updated, and polished. The text is more international than ever, written for wine lovers of every persuasion, including those who love wine but want to know more in order to increase their enjoyment of this endlessly fascinating liquid, and those who are intent on studying wine, professionally or privately. This is a huge treasure trove of knowledge, for the first time breaking the barrier of one million words, but the alphabetical format and the links between the entries make it easily navigable, and the language, while not shying away from complex science, is intended to open the door to every curious reader looking for answers on every question they have ever wanted to ask about wine.
Author: Molly Lynn McIlquham Publisher: ISBN: Category : Soil management Languages : en Pages : 0
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Soil health, the ability of a soil to function as a living ecosystem and sustain plants, animals, and humans, has been extensively studied in the Midwest and Northeastern U.S. in rainfed annual cropping systems. However, information is lacking for improving and assessing soil health in irrigated specialty cropping systems, especially for wine grape (Vitis vinifera L.) growers in the Pacific Northwest, where soil health threats and cropping goals are drastically different. Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties related to important functions are assessed through indicator measurements, but regional targets for each measurement must be established to account for the effects of inherent soil type and climate. Additionally, guidance on how management practices may influence soil properties in the drip-irrigated vineyards must be evaluated. To address this gap in knowledge, a soil health assessment was conducted across Washington state’s primary wine grape growing region, sampling 70 sites with varying management and measuring 14 soil health indicators. Producers provided guidance on "good" and "challenging" field pairs and participated in questionnaire-led interviews to gather management histories for each block. Preliminary scoring curves were developed for soil health indicators measured. Curves for permanganate oxidizable carbon and soil protein were shifted negatively from scoring curves being used across the U.S. due to inherent differences in soils and climate. Soil health changes from management practices were also analyzed, and compost additions increased potentially mineralizable nitrogen and cation exchange capacity. No differences in soil health indicators were detected as a result of managing alleyway vegetation. The nature of the study allowed for a considerable variation in the establishment of alleyway vegetation and compost application rates, therefore decreasing the power to detect changes. Indicators unique to Vitis vinifera in Washington state include measuring northern root knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla); however, no management practices affected the populations. No measured soil health differences were detected between farmer identified "good" and "challenging" pairs. Data collected from this soil health assessment will provide growers with attainable measured soil health ranges disseminated through an Extension publication and provide a framework and guidance for further research on soil health management in vineyards.
Author: Alex Maltman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190863285 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 273
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This pioneering book explains geology wholly in the context of wine, including how it works in vineyards and its possible effects on wine taste.
Author: Robert White
Author: Robert White
Author: Molly McIlquham
Author: Robert E. White
Author: Barrett Williams
Author: Ted Goldammer
Author: Julia Harding MW
Author: Molly Lynn McIlquham
Author: Alex Maltman
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