Following on from bud burst around the end of September/start of October depending on where your vineyard is, the vine has dodged a couple of frost scares and the new shoots now seem to be happily growing bigger each day. Looking across the vineyard there is a picturesque sea of green. At this stage of the season each shoot has between 3-5 leaves unfolded and you can now see the inflorescence's on each shoot (mostly 2 per shoot). All going to plan, these inflorescence's will swell, flower, and set fruit before the year is out.
Even now we can get a rough guide to the potential crop by looking at the average number of inflorescence's on each vine and applying a bunch weight guesstimate based on the historical data of the vineyard. The major variable in the equation is the weather over the flowering period which plays a big part in the number of berries that set on each bunch , and therefore the potential crop size.
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