I was talking to some wine lovers the other day when it suddenly transpired on me how some viticultural concepts seemed so accessible to me - I had seen similar things in the gardening programmes broadcast on BBC TV many moons ago when I was studying in England. After all, gardening and growing grapes are just different aspects of growing plants for enjoyment and surely some concepts must be common to both.
For example, pruning for canopy management could be compared with either topiary (or cutting hedges into shapes) or even Bonsai (though I cannot remember seeing either on the usual BBC gardening programmes). However, I do remember one episode when the presenter, having trained a peach tree up the side of a wall of the house, was detailing how he would examine all the little fruits growing in each of the branches, and then selecting the best say 3 and then pulling off the rest in order to ensure that he had three nice big peaches per branch. For the vigneron, the parallel is green harvesting!
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