Today was harvest day, our first. It was a few days earlier than planned (Sept 21) as rain, yes, rain was in the forecast. The day started out crisp with blue skies and four hot air balloons
making their way across the Eastern sky. Not in a pattern where I could get all four in one photo.
The grapes were ready.
The brix (sugar) was 25.
At 9:30a.m., 18 pickers arrived. They stood around joking in Spanish with one another for about 10 minutes. Then as if someone shot a gun, they grabbed picking boxes and started to pick.
In no time, less than 10 minutes, 19 picking boxes were full and the vineyard was picked clean.
for the trip to the winemaker’s ( Marty Martin-Vegue) house on the east side of Santa Rosa.
Safely at Marty’s house we unloaded the 19 boxes from the trailer and prepared the stemmer/crusher.
The whole process took about an hour including clean-up. It was a very sticky process!
Now Marty performs his magic along with legions of yeast. In 18 months we will get to open a bottle or two and see how our wine tastes.
JohnDory Vineyards
2 comments:
Eager to know how many harvests we can have in pinot noir. Thanks.
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