Pruning grape vines is a midwinter job that keeps plants shapely, healthy and fruiting well. Climate change means that grape vines, once the preserve of large conservatories and warmer hemispheres, ...

Grape growers around Central Australia have their work cut out for them in the next few weeks as they finish off pruning their vines. For local green thumbs that aren't too sure how it's done, they're ...

Anthocyanins are important, red, blue, purple and purple-black plant pigments that are widely distributed in the cell vacuoles of flowers, fruits, roots, stems and leaves. 1,2 Grape anthocyanins are ...

Delegates of Delicata’s viticultural team recently met up with the world masters of grape vine pruning in vineyards planted to Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties on the hills of the ...

Grapevines are fun, fruiting plants that can thrive in the highly fluctuating climate of the Front Range. Without proper maintenance, however, grapevines might not last long. Pruning is essential to ...

Pruning is perhaps one of the less glamorous facets of vineyard work. Done by hand, it’s both labor intensive and time consuming. If you asked Marco Simonit, though, he’d tell you pruning is an art ...

Japanese table grapes are quite expensive because their production is highly labor-intensive. In particular, grape berry pruning is a labor-intensive task performed to produce grapes with desirable ...

I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...

Texas vineyards are unique in the wine world since those vineyards along the Gulf Coast contain hybrid grapes and those further inland contain the classic wine grapes. As a result, Texas vineyards ...