5.75 WINE – GROWING GREAT

 

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LESSON 5.75 WINE – GROWING GREAT

If you manage a vineyard, you are not just growing grapes. You are in fact growing

the final product – wine

Growing great wine is about getting the balance of quality and yield right. You need to find the

optimum balance based on the desired product.

The target depends on whether you are growing table & bulk wine, good-medium quality wine,

or high quality wine.

Drip irrigation gives you more control to achieve the optimum yield / quality balance, every year.

Wine Market Segments

Achieve the Quality / Yield Balance

The goal in most regions is to increase wine quality in a repeatable process every season.

Wine grape quality improvement can be achieved through Reduced Deficit Irrigation (RDI)

techniques, combined with drip fertigation which is covered later in this brochure.

 

Myth Busting:

Irrigation Reduces Grape Quality à FALSE

 

In some regions, there is a historical view that vineyard irrigation increases yields and

Conversely reduces quality.

Naturally, if the crop is over irrigated, you will end up with large fruit with low sugars.

However, numerous pieces of research, and the demonstrated success of ‘new world’ wines where irrigation is standard practice, show that irrigation, when managed correctly, actually improves the quality of wine.

 

Irrigation ensures the vine receives sufficient water during the budding and flowering period, but is then reduced during the ripening period to allow the vines to develop the grape bunches instead of foliage.

 

Reduce the impact that adverse weather has on your crop.

Viticulture is extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall.

Therefore, consider the following:

 In many traditional wine growing regions, temperatures are increasing while rainfall is decreasing.

For example, in the wine producing area of Côtes-du-Roussillon-Villages in Southern France, temperatures have been increasing since the mid-1980s and are projected to increase further. Additionally, research has found that precipitation is becoming more variable, and lower in summer with further droughts expected.²  

One year of high-water stress will adversely impact several years of future harvest.

   Too much water stress results in a decline of the oenological potential of grapes – less sugar in the grapes resulting in reduction in aromas, acidity, and colour stability. If soil moisture from winter and spring rains is depleted and no supplementary irrigation is available, you increase risk of lower quality wine.

  As young vineyards require additional water, they are more susceptible to weather unpredictability.

If you do not irrigate, you leave your grape crop to chance as the weather around the world is generally becoming less favourable and more and more unpredictable. The result is inconsistent yields each year as you are reliant on climatic conditions. In very poor years, you can severely damage your vines for future years.

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SOMO LA 5.75 DIVAI – KUKUA KUBWA
Ikiwa unasimamia shamba la mizabibu, sio tu kukua zabibu. Kwa kweli unakua
bidhaa ya mwisho - divai
Kukuza divai nzuri ni juu ya kupata usawa wa ubora na mavuno sahihi. Unahitaji kupata
usawa bora kulingana na bidhaa inayotaka.
Lengo linategemea ikiwa unakuza meza na divai nyingi, divai ya ubora wa kati,
au mvinyo wa hali ya juu.
Umwagiliaji kwa njia ya matone hukupa udhibiti zaidi ili kufikia uwiano bora wa mavuno/ubora, kila mwaka.
Sehemu za Soko la Mvinyo
Fikia Salio la Ubora / Mavuno
Lengo katika maeneo mengi ni kuongeza ubora wa divai katika mchakato unaorudiwa kila msimu.
Uboreshaji wa ubora wa zabibu unaweza kupatikana kupitia Umwagiliaji wa Upungufu wa Nakisi (RDI)
mbinu, pamoja na urutubishaji kwa njia ya matone ambayo itaangaziwa baadaye katika kijitabu hiki.
Kutunga Hadithi:
Umwagiliaji Hupunguza Ubora wa Zabibu  UONGO
Katika baadhi ya mikoa, kuna maoni ya kihistoria kwamba umwagiliaji wa shamba la mizabibu huongeza mavuno na
Kinyume chake inapunguza ubora.
Kwa kawaida, ikiwa mazao yanamwagilia zaidi, utaishia na matunda makubwa na sukari ya chini.
Hata hivyo, vipande vingi vya utafiti, na mafanikio yaliyodhihirishwa ya mvinyo wa ‘ulimwengu mpya’ ambapo umwagiliaji ni mazoea ya kawaida, yanaonyesha kwamba umwagiliaji, unaposimamiwa kwa usahihi, kwa hakika huboresha ubora wa mvinyo.
Umwagiliaji huhakikisha kuwa mzabibu unapata maji ya kutosha wakati wa kuchipua na maua, lakini hupunguzwa wakati wa kukomaa ili kuruhusu mizabibu kukuza mashada ya zabibu badala ya majani.
Punguza athari ambazo hali mbaya ya hewa huathiri mazao yako.
Viticulture ni nyeti sana kwa mabadiliko ya joto na mvua.
Kwa hivyo, fikiria yafuatayo:
 Katika maeneo mengi ya kitamaduni yanayokuza mvinyo, halijoto inaongezeka huku mvua ikipungua.
Kwa mfano, katika eneo la kuzalisha mvinyo la Côtes-du-Roussillon-Villages Kusini mwa Ufaransa, halijoto imekuwa ikiongezeka tangu katikati ya miaka ya 1980 na inakadiriwa kuongezeka zaidi. Zaidi ya hayo, utafiti umegundua kuwa mvua inazidi kutofautiana, na inapungua wakati wa kiangazi huku ukame zaidi ukitarajiwa.2
Mwaka mmoja wa shinikizo la maji mengi utaathiri vibaya miaka kadhaa ya mavuno yajayo.
 Mkazo mwingi wa maji husababisha kupungua kwa uwezo wa oenological wa zabibu - sukari kidogo kwenye zabibu na kusababisha kupungua kwa harufu, asidi na uthabiti wa rangi. Ikiwa unyevu wa udongo kutokana na mvua za majira ya baridi na masika utapungua na hakuna umwagiliaji wa ziada unaopatikana, unaongeza hatari ya divai ya ubora wa chini.
 Kwa vile mizabibu michanga huhitaji maji ya ziada, hushambuliwa zaidi na hali ya hewa isiyotabirika.
Usipomwagilia, unaacha mazao yako ya zabibu kwa nafasi kwani hali ya hewa kote ulimwenguni kwa ujumla inazidi kuwa mbaya na isiyotabirika zaidi. Matokeo yake ni mavuno yasiyolingana kila mwaka kwani unategemea hali ya hewa. Katika miaka maskini sana, unaweza kuharibu sana mizabibu yako kwa miaka ijayo