Santa Cruz County Vineyards on This Year’s Grape Harvest

Christina Waters, Good Times Santa Cruz, Oct. 3, 2017. Good Times Santa Cruz story on this year’s harvest and challenges features this photo that Mary took from our harvest this year. And Mary is quoted saying, “Lindsay admitted to being alarmed when the heat began. “On September first, we picked in 100-degree temperatures. It was closing in on 90 degrees when we started at 4 a.m.” With plenty of cold water for the picking crew, and a wet shirt over her head, Lindsay recalls, “We brought in almost seven tons. I’m glad we picked that day, because it was even hotter the next day!”

Muns Vineyard came through that heat wave “just fine,” says Lindsay. “We had been irrigating, even with all the 80 inches of rain we got last winter, because we had a lot of new vines. Then, when we knew temps were going to heat up, we irrigated as much as we could. The irrigation helps the vines and the fruit ride through the heat.”

See the story here.