投稿の詳細: 遅れ　Delay

今日も雨。寒い一日だった。
天候不順は例年のこととはいえ、今年は
また特に不順のような。　既に房切りを始めている
畑もあるようだが、まだまだ早すぎるように思える。

例年なら5月最終週にはじめる房切りだが、今年は
来週半ばくらいからだろうか。今年はりんごの結果数
も極端に少ないようで。去年の異常な暑さや今年の
開花期（これもかなり遅かったのだが）の雨が理由
の様だという話なのだが…。今年は赤熟れ（色の薄い）
の巨峰が多くなるのだろうか。

写真は里のソーヴィニオン・ブラン。

It was another rainy and cold day today.

Unstable weather is not special any more these days
but this year’s weather is specially different. I found in
a few vineyards people started bunch forming operation on their
Kyoho baby bunches but it seems too early.

In normal year, this operation starts in the last week of May
around here but we may start sometime mid next week. I hear
extraordinary few baby apples formed this year. Some say it
is because of the heat last year and partly because of the rain
during the delayed flowering this Spring. I wonder if we will
have reddish Kyoho grapes this Autumn or not?

The picture is Sauvignon Blanc today in the vineyard
near our town.