Cabernet Sauvignon Comes In From The Cold.

The temperature in the greenhouse is regularly getting into the mid teens celsius to the early twenties on very sunny days. These temperatures can only go higher as the days get longer and the sun rises higher in the sky.

This is the beginning of the long road to my Cabernet Sauvignon style wine. The Cabernet Sauvignon vine is only young. It is a variety that cannot be ripened outside so will be trained onto the greenhouse and cropped in there. Here is is out in the cold.

And here it is with a couple of shoots inside in the warmth. Hopefully the start of some vigorous growth this year. Once it begins to feel the warmth it should respond.

It is destined to be blended with Cabernet Cortis to make a cabernet style wine. Cabernet Cortis is a variety that ripens well outside and like Cabernet Sauvignon one of it's parent it produces a cabernet style wine, one of a growing number of varieties fit for this country that do.