Harvest - 2011

Harvest is upon us. Today at the break of dawn we drove out to the vineyard expecting to get slim pickings and that's pretty much what we got. Th vines were cut way back in the winter to get them under control from a pruning standpoint. As a result the fruit was sparse and what was there was in rough shape. We managed to get about 19gallons of Syrah must at the end of the day. After the crush I added 5g of sulfite and 2 liters of water. After letting it settle most of the day I did my initial measurements and I was pleasantly surprised to see about 24 brix with a pH of 3.4. I guess you can't get much better than that. The tartaric measurement was also really close to optimal. So although we got very little fruit at least the fruit we got seems to be pretty well suited for wine making.

So tomorrow we'll go ahead and pitch the yeast and let the fun begin.

Thanks to Steve for Joining us.

Olivier trying to avoid the Yellowjackets

These guys were a big problem this year.

We only got 3 tubs this year. :-(