Putting our friend to work in the Nicolini Ranch ancient #Lodi #Carignane vines. Paul, visiting from Switzerland, has pah-lenty of leaves to pull after all the rain. These vines are exploding with growth this year!

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Fine tuning the pruning.

Markus scans the vines after the main crew does their work.

Ancient vine Nicolini Ranch #Lodi #Carignane planted in 1935
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Fresh haircut.

Ancient vine #Carignane in the Church Block of #Lodi #wine country.

Using this muddy break between rivers to get pruning done on the Ancient Vine #Carignane at Church Block in #Lodi #wine country. It's Markus's form of meditation to solve the puzzle of cuts for each vine himself every January.