Member Field Day at Cannon River Vineyard

The MGWA will be hosting our second educational field day at Cannon River Winery's Vineyard on August 4th from 10:00am to 1:00pm.  This series of informative in person sessions focuses on best practices for working with Minnesota grapes from vine to bottle. This year we are going to focus on the vineyard. We encourage you to attend this pre-harvest field day whether you were present for our first session last month or not. For this session, the conversation will focus on pre-harvest practices and parameters, along with a conversation about harvest itself.

As vineyards across the midwest are beginning to enter veraison, we as grape growers and winemakers can see the fruits of our labor and the impacts of our actions over the last year or years. This is an exciting time, but it can also be intimidating. Whether we are dealing with pests in the ripening fruit, late season…