The selection of the buds come approximatly 1 month after the opening of the buds. It is again a manual task that need to go in each vines, and to take care about each branch of each cep to remove some of the new shoots. With 9 000 vines per hectare for our estate which has 7.5. It's not less than 67 500 cep which will be shecked one by one.
But why do we have to remove future branches ?
To be fruitfull (bear fruit) shoots that grows this year must come from a but established on a branch of last year. If the new branch is a coming from one of 2 years or more, it will not carry grappes, but will consume the sap. It is therefore necessary to eliminate those new shoots to prevent it taking too much sap unnecessarily. So, we remove new shoots from the bottom of the cep or from buds of old branches.
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