Least amount of vines required

[David Engel]

Hi All,

I have 3 established Merlot vines in the garden (4 years old this year). Last year I only got 1 cluster from each, obviously hoping for a better 4th year yield. Question is... what's the least amount of clusters or vines that you've heard of to jump in and make small amounts of wine?

Dave

 

[salcoco]

normally you get one cluster for a spur about 8 inches long and two cluster for a spur 12 or more inches long. one gallon of wine takes 12-15 lbs of grapes. depending on how pruned one vine can give you enough for one gallon

 

[NorCal]

We plan on 24 clusters per vine (12 shoots, 2 clusters per shoot) on our head trained vines. Depending on varietal we get 5-10 pounds per plant, the average being 7. I plan on 15 pounds per gallon of wine and happy when I get more wine than expected.