Chilly, dry weather – like Northern California has seen the past few weeks – makes for ideal grapevine pruning (trimming) conditions, setting up the vines for a great 2026 crop. In this video, Markus Niggli, founder and winemaker of @MarkusWineCo, shows Editor-at-Large Jim Gordon how he prunes 91-year-old, head-trained vines in the Church Block Vineyard in Lodi, California. Niggli likes to do his own pruning across the 1.5-acre plot of own-rooted carignan, petite sirah, and alicante bouschet. Ji

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