FACTS AND DATA ABOUT THE VINEYARD, VITICULTURAL PRACTICES AND WINEMAKING AT LITTLE BURSTED
The following page will be added to regularly as we prepare, plant, trellis and manage the vineyard over the following few years:
Land:
GPS Coordinates: 51'12N 1'05E
Altitude: 80-95m
Aspect: ESE, slope 1:7.5
Topography: Dry valley, dip slop of North Downs
Bedrock: Upper chalk
Soil: Quaternary head deposits / clay with flints
Planting:
2,312 Pinot Meunier; clones 818 and 924; rootstock 41b
1,400 Pinot Noir; clones 375 and 700; rootstock 41b
1,470 Melon B; clone 1057; rootstock SO4
Trellising system: virtual shoot positioning, double guyot
Row spacing: 2.2m
Vine spacing: 1.1m
Planting date: 20 April 2022
Cultivation and cover cropping
Subsoil, plough and harrow, mixed late drill cover crop October 2020
Plough and harrow, mixed cover crop September 2021,
Subsoil, plough and harrow April 2022 ahead of planting.
Nutrient additions:
0.24.24 (Phosphate and Potassium) September 2021
Herbicide and weed control:
Glyphosate applications during initial site preparation and cover cropping October 2020, September 2021 and April 2022
[future weed control TBA]
Fungal and insect control:
[TBA]
ANNUAL GROWING SEASON AND HARVEST DETAILS
To be added once we have growing season under our belt
2021 (site preparation):
Growing season mean temperature (Apr-Oct): 13.11C
Growing season GDD: 850
Monthly rainfall April-Oct: 7, 144, 114, 85, 116, 26, 178
Latest air frost: 7 May (-0.9C)
2022 (first year - no harvest):
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Monthly rainfall: A, M, J, J, A, S, O
Latest air frost: [date]
2023: (second year - no harvest)
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Monthly rainfall: A, M, J, J, A, S, O
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2024: (first harvest)
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Monthly rainfall: A, M, J, J, A, S, O
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Brix/sG/potential alcohol at harvest: Meunier [TBA]; Pinot Noir [TBA]; Melon [TBA]
Titratable acidity at harvest: Meunier [TBA]; Pinot Noir [TBA]; Melon [TBA]