On a weak vine, producing too much fruit one year can hurt yields the next, and optimistic, robust vines produce many more grape clusters than they can ripen, requiring thinning of grape bunches midsummer.
If the wine gets too warm, it will get flat and you won't taste those robust, vine-ripened flavors that make red wine so great.
Certain robust woody vines that ordinarily use woody plants or permanent structures such as fences for support evidently are able to reach from old overwintered Phragmites culms to new shoots of the current year.
No one could say how Vermentino would fare in California soil but it has been a great success here: Drought tolerant, robust on the vine, requiring no oak treatment and minimal handling, it was grown with relative ease in California vineyards.
In the fall, when you gathered, say, your muskmelon seed for the next year's crop, you selected it from the most robust and productive vines.
This drives vines to put forth robust, fast-maturing fruit, and brings an early harvest.
It's this combination of land and climate that allows the grapes to grow longer on the vines, giving them more robust and full flavor.
Last year, the level and ferocity of cyber-attacks on the internet reached such a horrendous level that some are now thinking the unthinkable: to let the internet wither on the vine and start up a new more robust one instead.
There is a robust-looking lawn, and there are pretty flowers on a vine.
The low conviction rate of sexual assaults in Britain, Vine suggests, is not a failure but rather evidence of a robust, effective criminal justice system.
