2013 Vintage

The 2013 vintage was outstanding in grape quality but again small in volume (only 1.1 tons) due to continuing Eutypa problems. We spent more time on bunch and berry sorting to reduce contamination and leverage the berry quality. This was the first year we measured phenolics during fermentation and cellaring.

1 Ann-Marie Gauthier picking grapes

2 Brian Robins & Steve Lapinski

3 Matt Crosby

4 Michelle Crosby

5 Naveen & Jess Agarwal and Andy Martin

6 Roger Mairose in charge of transport

7 Steve & Rosemary Rossi

8 Steve & Stevie Rossi

9 Steve Hunyor picking grapes

Picking Grapes

We picked the grapes with a large crew of 16 in record time, about 90 minutes.

1 Andy Martin precision sorting

2 David Fryburger, Steve Hunyor, Naveen Agarwal & Steve Lapinski sorting bunches

3 Many around the bunch sorting table

4 Ngoc and Rosemary Rossi bunch sorting

5 Stevie Rossi bunch inspection

Bunch Sorting

We spent 2 hours sorting debris and mildewed berries out of the bunches. We used a new sorting table which however proved out to more of a bottleneck than an improvement

1 David Fryburger & Donna

2 Donna and Andy Martin

3 Lunch buffet

4 Michelle Crosby & Greg Martin

5 Three generations of Rossis and Steve & Susan Lapinski

Lunch

As usual, a great lunch prepared by Donna and the ladies as the rest sorted bunches

1 Brian Robins sorting and me spraying sulfur

2 Grape stems falling out of destemmer

3 Greg Martin

4 Rosemary Rossi & Andy Martin sorting

5 Rosemary Rossi and me sorting berries

6 Steve Lapinski loading destemmer

7 Steve Rossi sorting berries

Destemming and berry sorting

We destemmed the bunches and sorted the berries after lunch

1 Steve Rossi saigneeing from vibration table

2 Steve Lapinski filtering saignee

Saignee

For the first time we caught the juice dropping out on the vibration table with the intention to ferment it separately as rose. The experiment failed because the juice was too polluted.

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