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Friday, October 18, 2019

Weighing In and Pressing at Jonathan Edwards

Our 2019 Chenin Blanc Harvest occurred on Monday, October 14. We had a convoy of trucks that took our harvest to Jonathan Edwards where each pallet was weighed.
Pallet Number Gross Weight Pallet + Lug Weight Net Weight
1 894 146 748
2 829 151 678
3 844 154 690
4 869 154 715
5 864 147 714
6 465 85 385
The weighing and processing of the grapes happened over two days. The first three pallets were done on Monday, October 14 and then last three pallets were done the following morning on Tuesday, October 15. When all was weighed the total weight of the harvest came to 3930 pounds, just a little shy of 2 tons!
After the pallets were weighed, the whole cluster grapes went into the press that Michael had set up. What was interesting was that after one turn of the press to even out the load, many of the berries had fallen off of the rachis!
The juice just flowed from the press in no time at all!
We thank all of our friends who transported the harvest to Jonathan Edwards Winery and the crew at Jonathan Edwards for being there to help us with the weighing and pressing of our first big harvest of Chenin Blanc!

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