Canopy management
The canopy is the grape vine foliage. Canopy management employs techniques such as pruning and leaf thinning that balance shoot growth and fruit development to maximize the varietal character of the grapes.
Canopy Size
Depending on the varietal and weather conditions, the grower must decide how many leaves to let the vine grow and keep. Too much shade and grapes could produce vegetal flavors.
Canopy management
This term describes the processes used in the care of the leaf canopy, such as pruning, trimming and leaf thinning.
Canopy management
Canopy management relates to the different processes used in the care of the leaf canopy such as thinning, pruning and trimming.
canopy - the above-ground parts of the vine, especially its leaves
canopy management - viticultural techniques designed to manipulate the canopy to achieve a specific end, usually optimising the quantity of grapes and quality of wine ...
Canopy: The leaves and shoots of grapevines.
Cap: The grape skins that float to the top of fermenting red wines, forming a "cap." ...
Canopy: The foliage of a grape vine
Carbonated: Wines infused with carbon dioxide to make them bubbly.
Carbonic Maceration: The fermentation of uncrushed whole grapes which takes place inside the cells of the berries.
Canopy
The foliage of a grape vine.
Canopy management
The viticultural techniques used to balance shoot growth and fruit development to maximize the varietal character of the grapes.
Canopy:The green foliage of a grapevine is called the canopy. The canopy can be trimmed or thinned to manage the amount of air and sun reaching the fruit, improving fruit quality, increasing yield and controlling disease.
[edit] Canopy management A range of viticultural techniques applied in vineyards to manipulate the vine canopy. This is performed for vine shape, limiting direct sunlight and disease control, in order to create an optimal growing environment.
Before harvest, the canopy of leaves at the top of the vine is often cut away to increase exposure to the sun and speed ripening.
The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in wine barrels is 170 years! ...
The microclimate is primarily a function of the amount of shading provided by the grape vine canopy as this affects the temperature, light intensity and humidity experienced by the bunch.
Canopy
The shoots, and leaves of the grapevine during the growing season
Cap
The layer of skins and pulp that forms on top of the juice during primary fermentation.
Carbon dioxide/CO2
The gas emitted by yeast during fermentation.
Sauvignon Blanc vines are vigorous and growers must trim back leaf canopy so that the grapes get sufficient nutrients to ripen and develop their flavors.
The primary objective of vine (canopy) management is to create a balance between the vine’s vegetative growth and its fruit development.
Moreover, Australians have innovated in canopy management and other viticultural techniques and in wine-making, and they have a general attitude toward their work that sets them apart from producers in Europe.
The art of "canopy management," pruning grapevine leaves so as to increase or decrease the amount of ripening sunlight that reaches the grape bunches, can also be used to influence ripening.
A wettish winter ensured good water reserves and there was good canopy development early spring, with even and sufficient rainfall to cover bud-burst and setting.
The variety is ferociously vigorous, with drooping canes and a tendency to grow lateral shoots, making canopy management a key issue in cooler areas. It is a generous yielding variety, so overcropping can also be a problem.
Sauvignon Blanc vines tend to be quite vigorous growers, so it is especially important to manage the canopy by careful pruning and even by thinning leaves and shoots to direct the plant's energy towards ripening the fruit.
The wine comes in many styles, depending largely on canopy management or leaf pruning (shaded grapes make a "green," "grassy" style while grapes exposed to sunlight make a characteristically citric style) and whether the wine maker chooses to age ...
Trellising
controlling the canopy and method vine grows to regulate amount of sun exposure
Triage
vigorous separation of good grapes from bad at harvest, picked over by hand ...
It is a vigorous variety in any climate, though, which requires the winemaker to trim and prune the vines and leaves so that the grapes are exposed to the sun. This is called 'canopy management.
 See also: Grape, Region, Wine, Vineyard, Fruit
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