{"id":1107,"date":"2010-08-23T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2010-08-23T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T08:38:42","slug":"veraison-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/veraison-at-last","title":{"rendered":"Veraison, at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1108\" title=\"IMGP8907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMGP8907-400x339.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veraison &#8211; the stage in grape phenology where the berries change colour and the skins soften &#8211; is occurring at last with my Pinot Noir vines. I&#8217;ve deliberately chosen this rather ragged looking bunch to illustrate some of the challenges of growing wine grapes in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>First, you can see the &#8216;hen and chicken&#8217; effect (<em>millerandage<\/em>), which is usually caused by cool or wet weather during flowering (but can also be caused by nutrient deficiencies). The hens are the normal-sized berries, the chickens the bullet-like small berries which won&#8217;t ripen properly.<\/p>\n<p>Second, there&#8217;s quite a spread of development in the bunch, with some green berries and some purple ones. Uneven ripeness in the same bunch is a bad thing. It means that you can end up with wines showing underripe green flavours and overripe jammy flavours at the same time. I don&#8217;t like &#8216;sweet and sour&#8217; Pinot Noir.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now the end of August, and the days are getting shorter. Will these grapes ripen properly? Even in this warm, sheltered site (my back garden), there&#8217;s a likelihood that they&#8217;ll struggle to limp over the finishing line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veraison &#8211; the stage in grape phenology where the berries change colour and the skins soften &#8211; is occurring at last with my Pinot Noir vines. I&#8217;ve deliberately chosen this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-viticulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}