Dear Linda,

I have Syrah and Grenache vines, we prune by the spur method to two
buds (eyes), each develops a shoot which we keep. We go through our
Syrah vines and remove any additional shoots by hand, the Syrah vines
are trained on a 3 wire system and the Grenache on a single wire or
bush (goblet). The vines only have a total of six spurs each. I am
situated in the southern Rhone our climate may be slightly cooler than
yours and the density of plantation must differ. Our vines are not
irrigated; it has hardly rained here for six months. We have just
started the process of removing shoots that we consider unnecessary,
known as ebourgeonnage here.

Hoping that the above, may have been of some interest to you.


Arthur
www.palejay.com