Monthly Archives: September 2016

2016 Pinot Harvest – Turtle Vines

It’s 3am and the call comes in…whom do you want to answer the phone?  Oh, this is harvest time and not the election!!!

I was up at 3am September 14th, and we started our pick at 4am with a 7 man crew.  We finished up a little after 10am.  Between what we sell to Hanzell and what we keep for ourselves we harvested 7,003 pounds!

And by the way, I lifted almost all of the grapes twice to get the trailer loaded….once to my truck and once from the truck to the trailer.  Didn’t have to work out for a week.

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Joey and Bernadino loading the trailer!

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Almost full trailer…

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I’m finishing up the Pommard and then heading to Sonoma to deliver the grapes!

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Joey and Bernadino loading the trailer!