Being a Boundary Breaker
Bruce MurrayA free, weekly post from Boundary Breaks Vineyard, where we make Riesling and Cabernet Franc wines in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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#204 What to do With a Young Cab Franc: Try it, But First, Give it Some Air
What Makes the 2025 Cab Franc an “Exceptional Wine”
For me, “exceptional” means that it is not like all the others; it is an “exception.”
We have produced nine vintages of Cab Franc, starting in 2017.
The 2024 vintage of Cab Franc was...
#203 Harvest Rules: Measure Many Times, Pick Once
Sheldrake Point winemaker Dave Breeden makes our dry and medium-dry Gewürztraminers. Gewürz is usually one of the first varieties we pick, so we test it weekly starting in the second week of September. On Tuesday, of this past week, the che...
#202 It Began as a Conversation Five Years Ago
From left. Bill Darcy, Kees Stapel, John Swick, Harrison Darcy, Kristy Darcy and Jesse Kovnat.
In 2021, Bill and Kristy Darcy visited the Boundary Breaks, and much like I did, they saw a future here in the Finger Lakes. That led them to pu...
#201 Time to Break Out the Refractometer
My wife, Diana Lyttle, taught high school science for 32 years. She is comfortable with the refractometer in the vineyard The device measures the percentage of sugar that has accumulated in the juice of the grape sample. Too little sugar, a...
#200 Our Experience So Far From Our Trial of Biological Fungicides
(For background, see Substack #198 and Substack #199.)
Here is the short answer to what we learned during the trial with Cornell. We are gaining confidence in what we will call the “hybrid” approach to managing molds and mildew in the vine...
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