Summary of Our Chenin Blanc Harvest

The harvest of our Chenin Blanc occurred over a few days. It began on September 29th with a small harvest of what we thought were the most yellow jacket afflicted clusters. On October 5, we harvested the grapes that were in wedding bags and scattered in the Chenin Blanc rows. Our major harvest dates occurred on October 6 and 7. For that, we sent out a message to our friends to come to the aid of the harvest. This was to harvest the Chenin Blanc in the netted rows. The number of lugs reflect the number of cleaned lugs. We have an approximation that equates 3 cleaned lugs to 50 pounds so we can extrapolate that we had approximately 1100 pounds of grapes that yielded 97 gallons of wine.
Here is a tabular summary:

DATE	#LUGS	#GALLONS
September 29, 2017	9	10
October 5, 2017	7-1/2	14
October 6, 2017	9-1/2	14
October 7, 2017	19	30
October 8, 2017	22	29

Our harvest exceeded all of our wildest expectations and for that, we are grateful to our dedicated friends who came to help us pick the grapes. Providing more details in the blogposts to follow.