All the abundant rain last winter has been a great help for our goal to increase our forested areas at Cortes de Cima by 25% this year. Since 1992, we have planted 90 hectares of mixed holm oak, cork oak, carob and pine in the areas surrounding our vineyards, fields which were once used for [...]
We have now completed the months long task of pruning, but our winter vineyard work is still not over. As we await the unfolding of the 2011 growing season, the workers are doing another round through the vines, to position and tie up the lateral cordons along the trellis wire (110 mm from the ground). At [...]
Our work in the vineyard is in standby mode. Winter pruning is long done, as is the other winter task of tying up the pruned cordons on the trellis wires as needed. Although bud break this year was early in March, the cool, wet spring has slowed down the growth of this year’s fresh emerging [...]
Our vineyards at Cortes de Cima are interspersed with numerous wetland ponds to foster birdlife such as herons, mallards and our own vineyard geese. Spot our newest goslings!
Now with the Copenhagen Climate Conference 2009 and Global Warming very much in the headlines, we want to share with our blog readers how Cortes de Cima is acting green. These are of course ongoing measures, and we are constantly striving to find new ways to save energy and cut waste in both the vineyard [...]
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