Let the growing season commence!
- New Hall Wine Estate
- Mar 1, 2023
- 1 min read
February marked the completion of pruning the Estate vines – for two months the sound of secateurs snipping have been heard from both across our Estate and other Crouch Valley vineyards.
Pruning decisions are made using a matrix of considerations, including vine vigour, age, variety, training system, density, sustainability and wine style. The aim is to remove last season’s lignified canes but retain the most fruitful and viable canes for the growing season ahead – it’s essential that the selected canes and spurs stay in line with the trellis for future canopy management too.
Our mighty Marechal Joffre vine pruned and primed for the season ahead
Our brilliant vineyard team are adept at ‘reading’ each vine. Whilst fruitfulness is a key consideration when pruning, maintaining longevity of the vine for future crops is hugely significant. The continued fruitfulness of our heritage vines are testament to the baton handed over from each vineyard manager to the next over the past five decades at New Hall.
With the electric secateurs safely packed away for another year, the Vineyard team now focus on vineyard maintenance, mulching the prunings back into soil, and tying the remaining canes securely onto the trellis system to support the forthcoming fruit and foliage. We also have some new tools in our arsenal, including a disc cultivator which provides a sustainable method of weed control.
A view from Church Hill Vineyard
Our self-guided Vineyard Trail is open seasonally
a detailed look at the pruning process, showing the careful balance between immediate fruitfulness and the long-term health of the vines. the mention of using a disc cultivator for sustainable weed control is a thoughtful detail. it's clear a lot of consideration goes into each cut, shaping the potential of the coming season. AI Image Editor
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Bud break in Essex is genuinely one of the best signs of spring in the UK wine year — and the 4 hectares of new Chardonnay/Pinot Noir is exactly the kind of slow patient expansion English sparkling has needed. I help a small English vineyard in Sussex with their social content and we've started using an Nano Banbana AI image and short-video tool to turn early-season vineyard phone shots into proper 15-second seasonal-update reels for our wine club (bud break and bloom photograph beautifully but always at the wrong time of day for natural light). New Hall's 55 years of family viticulture deserves that kind of visual treatment for the harvest narrative. Cheers to a frost-free season.
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Exciting to see the growing season kicking off at Newhall Wines! It's always fascinating to follow the journey from vine to bottle. Speaking of enhancing visuals, if you ever need to sharpen up your own photos, I found a great tool for that: Photo Enhance.