lowing each vine to produce the optimum amount of fruit with a well-balanced canopy. We do this through cane-pruning and defining irrigations blocks according to changes in soil profile. We prune late to ensure that budding occurs after the very cold weather we can have up on our mountain in early spring. We focus our hedging and leafing program, a few times during the growing season, to allow the optimum fruit exposure. Given our hillside location and changing soil profiles, it is important to