Harvest Step 3: Grape Stomping

After Grape Cleaning comes the most fun part of the day. You can channel your inner Lucy Ricardo (oh--you are too young to know Lucy Ricardo of "I Love Lucy"?). Regardless, the experience is rather mirthful and I can promise you that your feet never felt anything like this before.
The movie below is a compilation of photos taken from the Chardonnay Harvest that occurred on September 23, the Chenin Blanc harvest on October 6 and 7, and the final stomping on October 8, stitched together to make one movie that features all of our friends who came to help.

A last stomping was held on Sunday, October 8. There was a last bit (okay--a large bit) of grape cleaning to do and then the final stomping of the 2017 harvest. The stomping had to be timed as rain showers came early in the morning and then disappeared in the early afternoon. Our last stomper was Hannah, everyone else was rather stomped out. I dare you to not clap your hands, stomp your feet and otherwise have a happy body when stomping grapes to the Theme from Zorba the Greek:

I'll end this post with one final photo:

It's kind of an enigmatic photo. What is it, you ask? It is the imprint of our friend's hands on our home's vinyl siding! Opa!