Getting ready for vintage, organising the grape sources.
Well, I was.
My prime shiraz/Syrah source had a really bad season with rot and weather, which is bad luck for Harry and Lyn on top of their not being of 100% wellness at the moment too. It's not their only income source, being farmers of course. Next year.
I still have to bottle the 35 liters I made with their grapes last year- smells like wine anyway.
And then I have to bottle my whole Five Liters I made last year. I may try to spin it out to 12 half size bottles instead I think.
The vintage of The Portable Vineyard looks good.
The Shiraz has many dried up berries- sick? But should be a good crop. And the birds are trying to get what they can through the net too. Bstds.
The Pinot Noir may provide a few litres, especially as there is no Chardonnay left...
Maybe I should combine the lot? No, cos the Pinot is not far from harvesting by a berry taste today. The shiraz is at lest a month off, same with the [netted] foxy white garage grapes that are teasing the shit out of the birds, Nyahaha.
was the Sole Parent and with MS starting trying to get four kids out into the wide blue world. Score: four in the wild! Now semi retired maybe, cook, windsurfer that needs to be a better amateur meteorologist, Alcoholorist; ex-winemaker ex-beermaker, ex-diy-distiller, keen and paid drilling rig wellsite geologist , has RRMS, RC yacht hobbiest, drone pilot. Coffee lover. mad SF reader, Mad keen speed sailor on sailboards, ambition 35 knots or much better!
Monday, February 14, 2011
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