A Day at Jonathan Edwards

Michael Schmidt at Spec Trellising invited us to see the unloading of two Albrigi tanks for Tapped Apple Winery at Jonathan Edwards. Here is one example of wineries helping other wineries. Tapped Apple Winery didn't have a way to unload the tanks, and the winemaker, Michael Harney at Jonathan Edwards said that they could use their equipment. How nice is that!
On Tuesday, Michael gave us a heads up that he was going to arrive at Jonathan Edwards around 9:30, so we arrived there about 15 minute before Michael Schmidt and that allowed us to bump into Jonathan Edwards! We met Jonathan Edwards in 2011, when we were in our information gathering phase. Jonathan remembered us and we spent a little time catching up on what we had been up to. While we were speaking with Jonathan, Michael, their winemaker waved to us from the winery below so we met up with him. Soon after that, the Tapped Apple Winery people, showed up and we got to meet John, John's son John, and John's friend Adam.

The unloading of the two Albrigi tanks went smoothly.

After the tanks were safely on the trucks, Michael (winemaker) invited us to taste some of the wines that he was making. We got to taste his Riesling and his Pinot Gris. We had a fun time and met a lot of great people in the business.