France Green Lights Anti-Hail Nets

[larry_schaffer]

Not an inexpensive way of protecting against hail, but they realize something has to be done to protect the crops . . .

https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2018/07/france-greenlights-anti-hail-nets?h=1

[alan_weinberg]

wonderful reasonableness

[David_Bu3ker]

100 years from now, obsessed wine geeks will debate the terroir implications of the pre and post hail net eras!

[Kim_Z]

@D@vid Bu3ker

100 years from now, obsessed wine geeks will debate the terroir implications of the pre and post hail net eras!

Long live Hailoir

[Eric_Ifune]

But it’s not Natural!

[Dennis_Borczon]

Nets have been used in Canada for years to protect icewine grapes from being eaten by hungry birds. It is really common sense to try and protect a valuable crop like Burgundy grapes. Would be nice if there were a temporary way to deploy the nets when there is a weather warning, but that is not probably practical.

[John_Morris]

Nets are used in Germany against birds, too, at least in the Ahr Valley. I remember seeing many plots covered in blue netting, and I recall someone saying that the nets were used particularly for Fruhburgunder, a variant of pinot that ripens early. Evidently the birds are drawn to that grape.

[A_So]

@John Morris

Nets are used in Germany against birds, too, at least in the Ahr Valley. I remember seeing many plots covered in blue netting, and I recall someone saying that the nets were used particularly for Fruhburgunder, a variant of pinot that ripens early. Evidently the birds are drawn to that grape.

Do they make a Frühlese out of that?

[Scott_Brunson]

@D@vid Bu3ker

100 years from now, obsessed wine geeks will debate the terroir implications of the pre and post hail net eras!

By then the vines will probably be Grenache

[Jim_Anderson]

@Scott Brunson

@D@vid Bu3ker

100 years from now, obsessed wine geeks will debate the terroir implications of the pre and post hail net eras!

By then the vines will probably be Grenache

100 years?!?

According to Chester Osburn it will happen in less than 20!

Osborn: Burgundy won’t be making Pinot in 20 years - The Drinks Business

I offered a bet of a case of 2038 La Tache (Pinot Noir) that he would be wrong.

[Pau1_M3nk3s]

@A. So

@John Morris

Nets are used in Germany against birds, too, at least in the Ahr Valley. I remember seeing many plots covered in blue netting, and I recall someone saying that the nets were used particularly for Fruhburgunder, a variant of pinot that ripens early. Evidently the birds are drawn to that grape.

Do they make a Frühlese out of that?

This made me smile. When does one drink a Spät Früh?