Veraison is the term used when red grape varietals actually turn red during growing season. In addition, it is the time when you have to start thinking about netting the vineyard so the birds don’t eat all of your crop.

As you can see from the picture above, we have a few grapes turning red!!!

In about 2-3 weeks I’ll be netting and the sugar content of the grapes will be above 12% so I won’t have to spray anymore. That will be a relief.

We have had a lot more sunshine this year, so I’m anticipating that we will have our first harvest of around 1000 pounds mid-September.