We’re about half way through our 2018 harvest.  Over the past month, we’ve been busy picking our white varieties (Seyval, Vignoles, Rayon d’Or, Vidal, and Valvin Muscat).  So far it looks like a really outstanding year.  Yields are down slightly this year due to prolonged temperatures around -10 degrees Fahrenheit this past winter, but the hot, dry summer was fantastic for our grapes.  We thought we were going to have an enormous amount of rainfall from tropical storm Gordon earlier this month, but we luckily only had enough to soak the ground (and not enough to split open the berries still hanging on the vine).  It’s been an abnormally hot late August/September, which will likely lead to some fantastic wines from this vintage.

Our next harvest date is Wednesday, October 3rd – we’ll be picking and crushing the first red variety of the year, Chambourcin.  If you live nearby and want to see the first steps of the wine making process, please stop by and say hello – we’ll be just outside the winery (to the right of the building).  We hope to start crushing the grapes around 3 p.m. (date and time subject to change if the weather sours on us).