This document summarizes the viticultural and enological services offered by Deny Dudzik Consulting. The services include soil and tissue analysis, integrated pest management, fertilizer recommendations, quality-focused cultural practices, and winemaking strategies to help clients produce high quality grapes and wines that express terroir. Dudzik has over 30 years of experience in the wine industry and provides services to dozens of vineyards in California.
2. Our tendency is to be
interested in something that
is growing in the garden,
not in the bare soil itself.
But if you want to have a
good harvest, the most
important thing is to make
the soil rich and cultivate it
well.
Shunryu Suzuki
3. Thirty years wine industry experience in sonoma and mendocino
counties
Agricultural PEST CONTROL ADVISER #75457
International CERTIFIED CROP ADVISER #28786
member: american Association of Applied IPM Ecologists, american
society of Agronomy
Environmental biologist
M.S. Biology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1979
B.S. Biology
Pennsylvania State University, 1975
4. Soil and tissue analysis is the basis of sound fertilizer recommendations that
result in higher fruit quality.
Pest and disease severity is reduced when vines are in a healthy
physiological condition.
Proper and appropriate fertilization results in wine grapes and wines that
have a deeper character and expression of the site.
Cultural practices performed throughout the growing season are equally
important. An emphasis on the biological cycles and relationships occurring
between the plants and soil constituents is the basis of “terroir”.
Site selection, as well as rootstock /scion selections, also play a significant
part in the expression of distinctive regional flavor characteristics. The
primary objective is to fine-tune the above to achieve the highest quality
wine grapes possible for a particular site.
5. Integrated Pest and Disease management
Soil and tissue analyses
Fertilizer recommendations
Quality-focused cultural practices
Rootstock and scion selection
Organic and sustainable farming practices that
protect watersheds
Site selection including environmental assessments
and biological surveys of sensitive species and
critical habitats
6. Achieving a full expression of fruit flavors and the distinctiveness of
regional differences is the goal of winemaking.
The utilization of appropriate fermentation techniques will result in
wines showing their full potential . Blending strategies as well as
barrel selection will further enhance the complete wine.
Also included in our services are practical suggestions on purchasing
affordable equipment as well as packaging designs that make sense.
Winery design considerations can be made to facilitate the
winemaking process and avoid unnecessary overruns. The overall
strategy for the particular winery will be considered to best fit the
desires and vision of the client.
7. FRUIT AND TERROIR EXPRESSION
FERMENTATION STRATEGIES
BARREL SELECTION
BLENDING STRATEGIES
PACKAGING CONCEPTS
EQUIPMENT SELECTION
WINERY DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
Specializing in producing small personal lots of wine for
growers to showcase their fruit and vineyards
8. Addison vineyard
Akins family vineyard
Angel Camp Vineyard
Ardzrooni Vineyard Management
Black kite vineyard
Buckner vineyard
Broken Leg Vineyard
Ferrington Vineyard
Harris vineyard
Hein Vineyard
Helluva Vineyard
High rock vineyard
Kiser Vineyard
Klein Family Vineyard
9. Klindt Vineyard
Lee Family Vineyard
Lloyd vineyard management
Londer Vineyard
Marguerite vineyard
Monument Tree Vineyard
Morning Dew Vineyard
Nelson Hill Vineyard
Petersen Vineyard
Philo Ridge Vineyard
Savoy Vineyards
Upper ranch vineyard
Valenti vineyard
Zicherman Vineyard
10. “Our vines have flourished under his care and the quality of our grapes
has continued to improve.”- Bob & Linda Klein (Klein Family Vineyard)
“In the early 1990’s I had the opportunity to begin working with Deny
Dudzik; walking vineyards, asking and answering questions, to get the
winemaker’s perspective on what they wanted and what needed to be
accomplished in the vineyard. He knew wine quality, I knew soils, pests
and diseases, and we both knew that soil quality is paramount. For over
15 years we combined our knowledge to produce many fine wines,
using sustainable or organic methods. There are many who know
viticulture, and many who know winemaking, but few with Deny’s
knowledge of both. ’’- Gregg Young, CPAg
11. American Society of Agronomy
Association of Applied IPM Ecologists
California Agricultural Production Consultants
California Dept of Pesticide Regulations
California Plant Health Association
Mendocino Winegrowers Alliance
Sonoma County Grape Growers Association
University of California Statewide Integrated Pest
Management Project
University of California Fruit and Nut Research and
Information Center
Yorkville Highlands Growers and Vintners Association