Chilly Reception...

Heres what can happen when Jack Frost pays your vineyard a visit. Things got a little chilly on a couple of nights last week. At a certain point the growing shoot goes into internal cellular meltdown and a few hours later the result is the drooping brown shoot you see above. Its all over for the season for this shoot but secondary and even tertiary buds from the same node may then grow. Of course you have lost that early advantage and the resulting shoots/fruit probably wont end up quite as ripe. .