Wine Grape Canopy Management

History and Science Go Well With Wine

Wine has unfalteringly accompanied us through history. It has seen the rise and fall of many an empire, it stood by us in biblical times, sloshed around in goblets at our medieval feasts, and patiently waited for us to regain our senses during prohibition.
Man has been making wine for centuries. So we’ve had a little time to study and try to improve upon our techniques. In fact, we’ve done so much pondering on the subject that it has become its own science; enology.
There are numerous steps in making a good wine that start from the instant the very first vines are planted all the way to the bottle. Aspects of botany, soil biology, chemistry, microbiology, genetics, ecology, physics, and engineering (just to name a few), all come into play in the complex orchestra of making a wine.
One technique that has emerged one the forefront of enology is canopy management. The term canopy management is just a fancy way of ref...