Dan Nickolaus demonstrates how the trellis arms fold together during harvest. Initially, it was the trellis concept–not the biodynamic farming aspect–that was the sticking point as the den Hoeds considered involvement in Randall Graham’s wine grape project. Bill den Hoed said that in their desolate corner of the Horse Heaven Hills appellation, labor availability would be a major issue in a vineyard only picked by hand. Mechanical harvesting would have to be an option for any trellis style. “There’s no way we could get all the workers we would need to hand pick grapes in our location,”den Hoed said. “We […]