Wes Hagen

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Vigor in the Backyard

Vineyard vigor and how to keep it under control to grow the best grapes possible.

15 Grapevines to Try in Your Vineyard

Celebrating 15 years, here’s 15 grapes you should consider growing!

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15 Home Vineyard Tips

In the pursuit of growing better and better wine in our backyards, Wes Hagen assembled a list of 15 things he’s learned about growing grapes

Joining a grape growing community

Spending time with fellow amateur grape growers can improve your own vineyard.

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Home Vineyard Experiments

How to set up, record and understand small-scale vineyard experiments, and suggest a few that will measurably increase wine quality.

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Questions in the Vineyard

Wes Hagen answers your home vineyard questions

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Sustainability Made Easy: Critters chasing critters

Adding certain animals to your vineyard can encourage biodiversity and improve yields.

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Detecting Vineyard Problems

Know what to look for to help identify problems in your home vineyard before they turn catastrophic.

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Minimize Bird Damage in Your Vineyard

Nothing is worse than watching your grapes go to the birds. Fight back!

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Grape Growing Q&A

Grape growing questions answered!

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Drought Strategies for Grape Growing

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Rosé Techniques Roundtable

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Award-Winning Pinot Noir

Four Pinot Noir pros share their best advice for crafting the “heartbreak grape.”

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Harvesting in the Moonlight

The heat of the day is not necessarily the time to harvest your ripe grapes. A night harvest allows you to bring the fruit in when it’s cool

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Post-Harvest Cleanup

Don’t neglect your vineyard just because the grapes have been harvested. Here’s the cleanup that needs to take place.

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Rhône Roundup

Four pro “Rhône Ranger” winemakers discuss making Rhône-style wines and decisions that work best on the small-scale.

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Pruning the Avila Adobe Vine

In January, Wes Hagen joined Los Angeles archivist Michael Holland to prune the historic 200-year-old Avila Adobe vine and explore the histo

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Irrigating the Home Vineyard

Explore the three most common methods of irrigating a home vineyard, some of the more common myths surrounding watering grapevines, and if y

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Balance in the Vineyard

Balance in a vineyard is defined as a vine that has enough leaves to ripen a small to moderate crop load. To achieve that goal, a good viney

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Orange is the New White

You may have noticed the “orange wines” that have been popping up on trendy wine lists lately. These are white wines that are purposely

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Vine Clones

Produced from just a mother vine, grapevine clones are intended to assure growers the grapes produced will have a predictable characteristic

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Inside the Vineyard Toolshed: Backyard Vines

The essential tools any home viticulturist will need to stay on top of their backyard vineyard.

Vineyard Consultants: Backyard Vines

Urban and Suburban Vineyards

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A Vineyard Education