Growing & Winemaking
Costs and Benefits of Hang Time
by Peter Mitham
Many winemakers and growers talk about hang time in favorable terms; this was especially true last summer, when cool conditions in many parts of the West Coast saw grapes take longer to achieve the quality parameters that made them worth picking. It was a year that exemplified the conditions in which more hang time benefits grapes by bringing sugars in balance with acids.
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