What is Beyond Hang Time

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What is Beyond Hang Time?

• Planting
• Pruning
• Irrigation
• Ripeness

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What is Beyond Hang Time?

• Planting
• Pruning
• Irrigation
• Ripeness

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Ripeness Begins with Absolute Wine Quality in
Mind

• Build for Your Great-Grandchildren
• 25-year Redevelopment Program
• Soil Preparation
• Plant Material

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Theory of Relativity

• Viticulture has orders of magnitude greater
  impact on wine quality than winemaking.
• Grape quality determines wine quality.
• Pruning determines grape quality.

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What is Beyond Hang Time?

• Planting
• Pruning
• Irrigation
• Ripeness

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The Human Factor

• Pruning begins with Highly Skilled Vineyard
  Workers
• Education, Experience, Intuition
• Authority, Responsibility, Accountability

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What is Beyond Hang Time?

• Planting
• Pruning
• Irrigation
• Ripeness

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Irrigation

• Weather versus Climate
• Swiss Cheese
• Increase interval between irrigations
• Increase volume per irrigation

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Irrigation

• Irrigate at night
• Pressure bomb readings
• Vine resilience during heat spells

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What is Beyond Hang Time?

• Planting
• Pruning
• Irrigation
• Ripeness

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Berry Tasting 101-A

• Sample berries randomly.
• Evaluate one berry at a time.
• Observe berry visually.
• Evaluate its resistance to being plucked.

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Berry Tasting 101-B

• Place berry in the mouth.
• Gently break skin of berry.
• Taste pulp to assess flavor, sugar/acid balance,
  and pulp texture.
• Expectorate juice.

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Berry Tasting 101-C

• Chew grape skins.
• Assess texture, flavor and tannin profile.
• Observe seed color.
• Taste a seed every now and again.

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When is a berry ripe?

• Triangles and Spheres
• Tang and Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
• Green Leaves versus Yellow Leaves
• Peanut MMs

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Changes in Anthocyanin Concentration from
Véraison to Harvest
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• Power with
• finesse.