More From Harvest 2016

We are so thankful that our friends were able to join us on Monday for the harvest of our Chenin blanc. It turned out that we had 1/2 inches of rain on Monday night into Tuesday and then more rain on Wednesday and Friday. So Monday, it turns out was our little window of opportunity.
Here are pictures of some photogenic grape clusters from the harvest:

After stomping on the grapes in the Igloo cooler, the spigot on the cooler makes it the ideal container for gravity assisted transfer. After the glass carboy was filled, it went into the fermentation chamber for cold settling of the gross soluble solids. The fermentation chamber is getting a little full this year.