Home Sweet Home
Harvester; totally power rangers, right?
Ten tons of Gewürtztraminer – first fruit of the crush in the middle of the night
The Office
Johannes – Crush Control
Jenny – Punchdown Princess
View from the top of the 5-ton fermentors, trying not to breathe too deep. CO2 rises…
16 tons in these 14-ton presses #Getitdone
The first thing to know for Chasing New Zealand Verasion is that harvest is in the spring, or is it fall? Ok let’s keep this universal and say ‘New Zealand’s wine harvest happens in or around February-May.’ Harvest in New Zealand, or anywhere in the southern hemisphere, is another way to get great experience and a different perspective, especially if you had worked harvest in the northern hemisphere exactly prior to that. Hopefully you’ve saved up enough money to travel and get to your destination, sold your car to afford your next plane ticket and you’re off to another adventure, new land, different wines, more great friends to make.
If you've cruised up to wine country in the last couple weeks, you'll notice vineyards are looking fairly bare. The shoots on the vine are either unpruned and naked of all their leaves or have been cut down to a 2-bud stub on the cordon, but what about those vines that look like they've been half pruned, with canes only about a foot long?
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