Chardonnay Grapes are growing, 7-18-11

You may compare this vine to the photo last week and see that the vine has not grown much. That is because the energy is going into growing the grapes.





This shows the grapes on the plant above and how they have increased in size over last week.




This is a photo of the flower garden with the picnic area in the back ground: beautiful now and for the summer. Come and enjoy it.









By the way we are participating in a 4 winery dinner at the Sienna Restaurant in El Dorado Hills on July 27. They have great food so go to our events page on the web site sierravistawinery.com for details and join us.

You will also see details for our Lobster feed which is delicious and fun as well.

Our continuing Chardonnay saga for 7-11-11, a day late

If you look closely at the photo above you may see that the vine appears smaller than last week. If you look at the ground you will see some leaves and canes. We have leaf thinned and hedged to cut out leaves and and some cane growth to allow the sun to give its taste enhancing powers directly onto the clusters which are shown in the next photos. You can verify that I have been photographing the same plant by looking at the green tape on the end post shown every week.











Notice how much bigger the grapes are than last week. They are looking good.

Chardonnay development as of 7-4-11

This week you can see the development of the plant over last week It did not grow as much as last week. As you may remember we were in bloom last week and must have just finished when the 1.1 inch rain hit this week. The next shot is a photo of a bunch of grapes that the grapes were the size of large pin head last week and are the size of a small pea this week. See the following photo. The grape development zaps some of the energy that goes into a developing plant prior to bloom.