Growing & Winemaking

 

Costs and Benefits of Hang Time

February 2011
 
by Peter Mitham
 
Many winemakers and growers talk about hang time in favorable terms; this was especially true last summer, when cool conditions in many parts of the West Coast saw grapes take longer to achieve the quality parameters that made them worth picking. It was a year that exemplified the conditions in which more hang time benefits grapes by bringing sugars in balance with acids.
 

 
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