It was a great day! About 30 people worked like champs to harvest 9,577 lbs (4.79 tons) of Cabernet Franc and 612 lbs of Vermentino for a grand total of 10,189 lbs – that’s 5.09 TONS of fruit! What a fabulous group of folks! Many thanks to all of you who were here, we couldn’t do it without you.
After the last trailer of fruit left we packed up our equipment quickly and headed over to Lost Oak Winery to check on our ‘babies’ in the crush barn. We were thrilled to learn that we set a new record for sugar accumulation for our Cabernet Franc of 25.5° Brix. The fruit also had excellent maturity and good color – all wonderful news and a great reward for all those hours in the vineyard.
We still have Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon on the vine. We’ll be monitoring and testing and will let you know when they’re ready to harvest. The Malbec could be ready in 1-2 weeks, the Cabernet Sauvignon will likely be 2-4 weeks, but that’s just an estimate and the grapes are going to do what the grapes are doing to do.
