Grape Picking Today!

We are picking grapes today.

We survived a 3 week late bud break, a late frost, a very rainy June, record heat, black rot, and an early frost.

If good wine needs the grapes to suffer, this should be a good year.

On to the picking!

Some progress on ripening

Lacrescent and Frontenac sees big increase in the last week. Others have more modest increases. We will be picking all varieties on Sept 24.
Foch:  18.8
St. Pepin:  14.3
Lacrosse:  13.2
LaCrescent vb1:  19.5
Frontenac:  23.2
LaCrescent vb3:  22.4
Prairie Star:  19.3

Latest Brix readings

Readings for grapes sampled at 7:00 pm on 9/5/2011

Prairie Star - 18.3
La crescent vineyard block 3   -  20.6
La Crescent vineyard block 1  -  17.6
Frontenac - 20.9
Foch - 17.8
St Pepin - 13.4
Lacrosse - 11.5