Washington State’s wine industry has built a solid reputation for producing premium wine, but there is always room for improvement. Many of the educational sessions at this year’s annual wine grape convention sponsored by the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers focused on improving wine grape quality through canopy management, irrigation, and other techniques. We asked a handful of growers how they planned to improve their quality. Kevin Laurent Alderdale, Washington Irrigation changes Kevin Laurent of Champoux Vineyards is working to convert a remaining pivot, used to irrigate 60 acres, to drip and microsprinkler irrigation. The conversion from an all-pivot […]