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In Napa, a new path to using less water

Posted by: Maven on March 20, 2010 at 5:12 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

“On close inspection, one thing stands out amid the vines at Dominus: You’d be hard-pressed to find thin black water hoses running down the rows.

Irrigation tubing is so ubiquitous in California that the lack is disconcerting. Yet that was always the plan laid out by proprietor Christian Moueix in 1981, when he agreed to make wine from the Yountville site.

“My first sentence was, I will need 20 years to make a good wine,” Moueix recalls. “My second sentence was, I will make a wine without irrigation or acidification, or I won’t make my wine. For us it’s just common sense.”

Yountville isn’t the most arduous place to farm, but one of its historic vineyards, the Napanook site now owned by Dominus, provides a contrarian blip amid California’s pervasive water use. As water worries mount, the lessons from this slice of Napa are worth acknowledging. … “

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March 20, 2010 · Filed Under Northern California

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