Not much happens over the winter but now the spring is here the work begins again. The vines are budding and this weekend I'll get to see how they look. They will be severely cut back to encourage new growth. Also the wine needs to be racked again. I'm thinking of bottling the red as I'm concerned that once we rack it (it currently fills the barrel right to the top) there will be air inside the barrel which is unlikely to improve its quality over time. For that I'll need to buy a bottling machine, don't know how much that costs yet but might be a good investment. And of course I'll need about 100 bottles too.
Meanwhile I have a couple of items which severely test my Hungarian language knowledge.
An thriller on video - The ABC of Pruning - something I won't personally be doing!
And a nice old book about grapes and wine:
... this page is about racking:
