Harvest 2008

Took us about 3 hours and 9 true friends to take down bird netting, pick, and hand-destem clusters. We only kept the goood grapes, and ended up with about 18 gallons of must. Lower than hoped for yield, but they looked WAY better than last year - the quality completely exceeded our expectations. Yeay!

Harvest stats:
Brix: 24.6
pH: 3.36
TA: 7.05

Tests were done by Rick at Fermentation Settlement, our local wine store proprietor, using an electronic measuring device like this.

We'll be pitching yeast and MLF culture soon; we got ourselves Lalvin ICV-D21 as our yeast and good ol' Viniflora Oenis malolactic bacteria.

Thanks Corby for the super awesome pictures!