Labor Day Activities

We had help from our daughter and her family during Labor Day and they put us in a really good place. On Sunday, our family helped us clothes pin the nets on 9 rows of Chenin Blanc, that is the equivalent to one-fourth of our entire vineyard, in one day! That is so amazing!
On Monday, the weather forecast was for rain, but the rains held off and our family helped us to gather a sample of grapes from the Auxerrois, Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay so that the first test of the season could be done.
Here are the Brix, pH and titratable acids for the white varieties so far:

Variety	Brix	pH	TA
Auxerrois	18	2.91	13 g/L
Chenin Blanc	17	2.65	14.7 g/L
Chardonnay	19.2	2.86	12.1 g/L

Here is a comparison to previous year' numbers at harvest:

Variety	Harvest Date	Brix	pH	TA
Auxerrois
	September 23, 2019	19.6	3.23	7.35 g/L
	September 17, 2020	19.0	3.07	7.5 g/L
	September 28, 2021	18.0	3.25	7.5 g/L
Chenin Blanc
	October 14, 2019	21.6	3.15	13.5 g/L
	October 11, 2020	23.3	3.09	12.1 g/L
	October 17-18, 2021	20.4	3.17	14.6 g/L
Chardonnay
	September 28, 2019	21.5	3.17	9.4 g/L
	September 24, 2020	23.5	3.0	10.0 g/L
	October 3, 2021	20.4	3.28	8.2 g/L

It's interesting to look at the Brix, pH and titratable acids and speculate that we could have more sugar accumulation before our pH and titratable acids are at a reasonable number. Since we are still in early September, harvest for the Auxerrois and the Chardonnay might be earlier this year.