Richard Wright, Pink Floyd

Yesterday I wore my Pink Floyd London concert T from 1972 while harvesting my wine grapes.
Richard Wright, died today, Monday 9/15/08
RIP

harvesting wine grapes

Yesterday we drove south of Madison Wisconsin to a small town called Oregon. There is a vineyard called Mitchell Vineyard, where we went to harvest wine grapes. We received the word saying the grapes were ready. There is only a small window of time to harvest for us, so even though it was gloomy weather (intermittent rain) we knew it was now or wait till next year. It was so worth it!!! We picked 165 pounds, of 4 varieties. For red, we picked Millot and Foch. For the whites, we harvested Prairie Star and LaCrescent. It was amazing. Row after row of vines, and huge clusters of grapes. The people at the vineyard encouraged us to taste the grapes, they are incredible! Sweeter than any grapes I have ever eaten. We harvested the grapes then we brought down our primary fermenters and glass carboys. The whites went through the destemmer then right into the press, where we gathered the juice into the carboys. The reds went through the destemmer and then immediately into the primary fermenters. The vineyard has about 6 acres, though not all is in vines. We will be able to first taste our red wine in 2 years, the whites sooner. I cannot wait!!!