Vineyard Underground
Hosted by Fritz and Fritz Westover · Fritz Westover
5.0from 170 ratings
- 110
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 170
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Vineyard Underground
What if you could hang out with experienced grape growers, ask them about the science of grape growing, vineyard operations, and more; then take an insight or two to improve your vineyard and ultimately the quality of the wines you produce? That's what we do each week on the Vineyard Underground. Hosted by Fritz Westover –– viticulture expert more than 20 years of experience in the vineyard industry –– every episode is an in-depth look at grape growing methods, care, and even complicated matters of fertilization and pest and disease management? The goal is to provide you with an understanding of the complicated aspects of viticulture science so that experienced and even first-time grape growers will be able to understand and implement new practices in their vineyard.
- Publisher
- Fritz Westover
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Oct 2022
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 110 episodes have a transcript.
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
109: How Vineyard Decisions Impact the Wine Microbiome with Dr. Jack Gilbert
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
108: Bonus Episode: A Mile‑High Move — The Colorado Chapter
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
107: Is It Time to Pull the Block - Assessing Decline in Older Vines with Dr Kendra Baumgartner
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109: How Vineyard Decisions Impact the Wine Microbiome with Dr. Jack Gilbert
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Then we have epiphytes, which are things that live on the surface of the plant. Those are things you can find on the leaves, on the stem, on the fruiting body, on the outside of the root, an area we call the rhizoplane, which is like the one millimeter or less than a millimeter surrounding the edge of the root. These are bugs that form what we call biofilms, where they actually excrete sugars into their environment to create a jelly-like substance that they live in on top of the plant. They're almost just using the plant like they would a rock. But they exchange nutrients with the plant and they grow on it in order so they can produce, they can survive. […]
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- Dr Jack Gilbert
- Dr Kendra Baumgartner
- Shiraz Mottiar
- Mark Krasnow
- Thijs Verschuuren
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 86 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 84 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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Fritz and Fritz Westover host the show. Published by Fritz Westover.
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