rrawhide
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Just finished helping Paul harvest his syrah. This year, with500 vines, we picked and crushed 350 gallons. The numbers are great and are the best they have ever been. Ph 3.5 TA .71 Brix 25.5 - no adjustments needed here!!!! SO2 added tonight and yeast tomarrow.
Here is what it looks like this year
moving grapes
pickers at work - this is a picker family he hires every year.
Because of lots of birds this year - they started at 0700 and were
finished at 1030. Had lunch and were gone!!!
crush directly into 500 gallon vats
hand to Paul and he dumps into crusher/destemmer
this is 350 gallons of syrah must. hopefully end up with
200 gallons of finished wine.
Merlot next weekend - as they are always a week later - and there are 350 vines.
I will also pick my few merlot next week too and will use Pauls equipment instead of setting mine up for only 50 vines. More on this later!!
onwards
later
rrawhide
Just finished helping Paul harvest his syrah. This year, with500 vines, we picked and crushed 350 gallons. The numbers are great and are the best they have ever been. Ph 3.5 TA .71 Brix 25.5 - no adjustments needed here!!!! SO2 added tonight and yeast tomarrow.
Here is what it looks like this year
moving grapes
pickers at work - this is a picker family he hires every year.
Because of lots of birds this year - they started at 0700 and were
finished at 1030. Had lunch and were gone!!!
crush directly into 500 gallon vats
hand to Paul and he dumps into crusher/destemmer
this is 350 gallons of syrah must. hopefully end up with
200 gallons of finished wine.
Merlot next weekend - as they are always a week later - and there are 350 vines.
I will also pick my few merlot next week too and will use Pauls equipment instead of setting mine up for only 50 vines. More on this later!!
onwards
later
rrawhide