VINEYARD HARVEST 2008!

We just finished our 2nd harvest of our Syrah grape vineyard. Very exciting! This was our vineyard's 4th leafing. We had originally anticipated a huge harvest... but... Mother Nature threw us a curve ball in April and we had a spring frost. This resulted in the loss of a lot of our foliage ~ which in turn caused some crop damage. Oh well... Que Sera, Sera... Atleast we'll have enough from the 2008 vintage to have a few dinner parties in 2010! In case you're interested.... here are some photos of the harvest process!

this is manuel! he is so great! i can't imagine running this farm without him. he's been so wonderful to work with!

This is Kevin! My very hard working husband... taking a few hours off of his real work as a political consultant to help with the harvest! He loves this stuff and it's fun to have him out in the vineyard! He's in charge of wine production and keeping an eye on what we have in the barrels!

this is zac... he supervised the harvest. the lack of opposable thumbs prevented him from any and all heavy lifting...

another successful harvest! our good friend robert smerling, owner of renwood winery, delivered a bunch of macro-bins for harvest. he's been at it a long time and we're the newbies.

our wonderful neighbor, peter moore, brought over his crusher/stemmer for processing. we are such lucky people to be surrounded by tons of great friends!