Thursday, October 22, 2009

Harvest Complete!

Today the boys finished with harvest! ... Well sort of... They finished picking yesterday and today they finished processing the Norton and the Chambourcin. This included more de-stemming and putting the fruit into stainless steel tanks. Another good bit of news is that Stephen got his heater back! This means no more 87 degrees on the second floor of the barrel room (which was our temporary solution to heating the wines). This heater will now be connected to the last of the red wines to keep their temperature higher to make sure that the yeast is active and turning the sugars in the wines to alcohol.

Now the focus is going to be making and tending to the wines... I'll keep you updated on what happens with the wines as they change and develop!

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