- We rolled the dice and hoped for an Indian summer to keep on ripening our Chenin Blanc. When we took the Brix reading on September 27, around the time we were harvesting our Auxerrois and Chardonnay, it was at 16 Brix. We hoped that letting the grapes hang a little longer would be beneficial.
- We were still in the process of freeing up the space in our fermentation chambers in the basement to accommodate the Chenin Blanc harvest. Our bottling of our 2017 vintage didn't occur until October 10 and 11, bumping right up to our harvest date of October 14, 2018.
- Instead of an Indian summer, Mother Nature indulged us with rain:
Date Inches of Rain September 25-26 2-3/4 inches September 28 1 inch October 2 1-3/4 inches October 7 Drizzling all day October 11-12 2-3/4 inches October 13 Drizzling all day
Varietal | September 27, 2018 |
Harvest |
|
Chenin Blanc | 16 | 17-18 | October 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2018 |
The lesson here is, if there is rain in the future, harvest! Also, make sure that bottling occurs way ahead of planned harvest dates!
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