Tony Rynders Consulting

Well, things have really started to take off in the vineyards. After an unusually cool spring, the heat is on. Bloom in the Willamette Valley completed in most vineyards in a 3 to 7 days. This is the fastest bloom, start to finish, that anyone can remember. We saw temperatures in the last two weeks shoot up into the 80's and 90's. And the next 10 ten days calls for more of the same. This is a welcome arrival as we were 2-3 weeks behind before the "summer" weather arrived. For the present, 2008 is shaping up very nicely. Uniformity in bloom is a wonderful thing!