Aux in Bags

Last year, we were a little late in getting our netting so we put our 1200 or so clusters of grapes in wedding bags. Our lineman, who would help us with just about any task, drew the line at ironing the wedding bags. Winter, though, is a good time to iron wedding bags and it is now coming in handy in bagging our Auxerrois. We have about 300 clusters of Auxerrois scattered in 3 rows. Yesterday, when we went to check on the Auxerrois, the skin of the grapes had turned soft, indicating the beginning of veraison. I began bagging our Auxerrois.

Later, when we went home, we checked the Brix (the sugar content) of the sampling of Auxerrois grapes and found it to be between 8-9 degrees. At the end of two days, a little more than 400 Auxerrois clusters were bagged.