by Shannon Brock | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog, harvest report
January 3, 2019–We will always remember the 2018 harvest, and probably not in a good way. Many of our colleagues around the Finger Lakes have called it their most difficult harvest ever. Extremely wet conditions, high incidence of rot in the fruit, and slow...
by Shannon Brock | Feb 7, 2018 | harvest report, vineyard
by Shannon and Paul Brock, owner-winemakers February 7, 2018–2017 will certainly go down in history as a “dark horse” vintage– emerging to prominence after seeming unlikely to succeed. After an unbelievably rainy spring and summer, a hot and sunny fall...
by Shannon Brock | Nov 28, 2016 | harvest report, vineyard
November 28, 2016– The headline for the 2016 growing season in the Finger Lakes is “extreme drought.” Prior to this year, the driest growing season on record for the Finger Lakes was 1973. According to Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Finger...
by Shannon Brock | Oct 20, 2016 | harvest report, news
October 20, 2016– Harvest is in full swing here at Silver Thread, with grapes being picked and processed almost daily. We began our harvest on September 16 and it’s been full steam ahead for five weeks now. We began by picking Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer...
by Shannon Brock | Dec 6, 2015 | harvest report, vineyard
by Paul Brock December 2, 2015 Silver Thread Harvest 2015: A Winegrowing Opus in Two Acts Since winegrowing is inherently artistic, it seems fitting to compare the 2015 harvest to a large-scale artistic work with two distinct parts. It began with ideal conditions...
