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Date in July that the 2021 harvest began in Napa Valley. The first winery to pick was St. Supéry harvesting 7 tons of Sauvignon Blanc. Honig began picking their Gordon Ranch vineyard on August 3rd. The earliest Napa harvest in the last several years was in 2015, when Mumm Napa began harvesting for sparkling wine on July 22nd.

The exact genetic offspring of a mother vine is called a:

A. clone

B. scion

C. hybrid

D. shoot

The noun “clone” refers to plants of the same species that have identical physical characteristics. The DNA of a grapevine is not stagnant, so in Nature, clones emerge and evolve as the result of natural genetic mutations taking place over hundreds, if not thousands, of years. A grape variety may have many clones (like pinot noir), or relatively few (like sauvignon blanc). Two different clones of the same grape variety may taste remarkably different. Clone is also a verb. In viticulture, “to clone” means to propagate a group of vines from a “mother” vine that has desirable characteristics. These characteristics may include qualities such as resistance to certain diseases, berry size, and/or flavor attributes.

Booze

Once spelled bouse, the word Booze comes from the medieval Dutch word Büsen, meaning “to drink excess.” Bouse dates back almost one thousand years, to medieval English, but was most commonly used in the sixteenth… Continue reading

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