Helicopters that protect vines
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:24 pm
Forum for Port, Madeira & Portuguese Wines
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A couple of newish wineries in NY I knew used them once or twice, mostly because they still had startup money, but mostly people used fans or sprinklers as only a few nights of helicopters paid for installing such systems.Paul Fountain wrote:I'd imagine that helicopters would be prohibitively expensive for most vineyards. Frost can be quite a problem in the vineyards near me but I'm not aware of anybody dealing with it using helicopters. Mostly, I think the fans or sprinklers get used