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		<title>Veraison is almost here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time flies when you are at the mercy of Mother Nature. The last post I wrote was back at the beginning of April when we were still under the threat of frost. Happily, Mother Nature smiled and we skated through the early “grand” phase of vegetative growth without further frost issues and I blink my eyes once, twice and it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frost Elementals and Blind Buds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the California Central Coast, early Pinot Noir vines began the 2009 bud break near the middle of March. Since then, depending on actual budbreak, we have been dodging and even getting slightly singed by several light frost events in late March and early April, from up and down the coast.
So far there has been little damage, a few singed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Vintage. Ready, Set, GO!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday I had the very fun opportunity to participate in a tasting event with several of my fellow pinot noir producers. This gave me the the chance to catch up with my friend Gary Franscioni from the Santa Lucia Highlands and talk weather. One of the things we talked about was the impact of last January’s heat spike on the 2009 bud break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence of the Grapes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a grim time of year for grape growers, especially those of us with the sixth sense. By sixth sense I don’t mean the high-pitched squeaks and chirps I make in the dark when using my echolocation skills or when I’m talking to bats and dolphins. (That’s my ninth sense.)
The sixth sense is a heightened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Drink!</title>
		<link>http://cargasacchi.com/blog/?p=3</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight up noon and it’s a beautiful, sunny 78 f. outside. Warm for the west side of the Sta. Rita Hills, but somewhere in the next hour or so, a gentle cooling breeze off of the Pacific will kick in and moderate the temperatures. Perfect weather to be sure, however as a result of the practice of controlled deficit irrigation, the vines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From FROST GIANTS to HURRICANES…</title>
		<link>http://cargasacchi.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a week in Texas showing our wines (drinking wine and eating into the wee hours) I just walked into the house after hoofing through the vineyards. 
Veraison is in its last stages and I am pleased but surprised by the degree of consistency in coloration. There are a small number of clusters (circa 5-10%) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>…biGG BUMpp of warming for the end of August!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the Central Coast’s current blanket of marine fog and cool weather, it looks like a fairly strong ridge of high pressure will start to build over the interior of California/Nevada early next week.
As this pressure ridge causes the weather pattern to shift from onshore to offshore flow conditions, we will end August with warmer, (potentially much warmer,) weather [...]]]></description>
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