VINTAGE 2014
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  • PART 3
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Michael Larner

Learn more about Michael Larner the winemaker who owns and with help from his family runs the Larner Winery in Santa Barbara CA.

Protecting Grapes From Birds With Netting

 Veraison
 birds, featured, Larner, Michael Larner, Riverbench, videos

As fruit ripens, a walk in the vineyard with winegrower Michael Larner led to an interesting discovery and we learned how vineyards use netting to protect their precious crop from birds. To explore this further, we visited Riverbench Vineyard to see the crew applying the netting to their vines.

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Michael Larner Explains Veraison As A Survival Mechanism

 Veraison
 birds, featured, fruit, Larner, Michael Larner, videos

Winegrower Michael Larner explains a survival mechanism that wine grapes have developed to advertise their sugar levels to birds and other animals.

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Michael Larner: Larner Vineyard and Winery

 Bud Break
 interviews, Larner, Michael Larner

Michael Larner of Larner Vineyard and Winery tells us about how he deals with Nazi gophers and how the new Ballard Canyon AVA is like giving birth to a third child.

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VINTAGE 2014

A multimedia collaboration set in Santa Barbara County, California during the 2014 wine grape growing season.

This crowd-funded project brings together visual artists, musicians, writers and wine farmers to document the 2014 vintage from a viticulture perspective.

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birds business cover crop drought dry farming frost fruit leaves vines

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