Harvest Time at Ghost Hill

My wife Linda and I made the trip north to Ghost Hill Vineyard to help process the '09 grapes on Sunday. 7:00 am found us sorting grapes with Botrytis out and tossing them before they made it into the winery. There were hot air balloons rising in the west, over the Bayliss' fields, and the sunlight was beautiful as it swept over the vineyards. The pickers were well on their way to done when we left and headed for the winery to get set up and have the vats cleaned and the de-stemmer running. We weighed all four varieties of the grapes that were on the truck and tried to get close to even amounts in each vat. The scale got so hot in the afternoon that it started to weigh itself in at 120-140 pounds!
We worked all day and buy 5:30 Rebecca sealed the last vaat and we started clean up.

Can't wait to tast it as it comes along!