This video was made 3.5 weeks after the hail storm of July 21st. The video shows the effect that the hail has had on the grape clusters. I estimate a harvest yield of ~70% of normal harvest. I am wondering what the effect on the wine will be, since there will inevitably be damaged berries run through the crusher/destemmer that will end up in the must. It is not an optimum situation, but the current state of the vineyard is much better than I anticipated. It has been a challenging year, with severe frost damage in May, followed by a nasty hail storm in July... the harvest looks like it will be pretty good, considering everything that happened.
Monday, August 16, 2010
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