grape harvest

[joeswine]

well FEEL THE NEED TO SHARE OUR WINE MEETING WITH YOU IN BRIEF,ON SUNDAY WE MET AT BARRY AND DEE,S VINEYARD,AND PRECEDED TO HAVE A BRIEF MEETING AND GOOD FOOD,THEN WE WENT OUT TO THE VINEYARD AND BEGAN TO PICK MERLO GRAPES HE HAD SO KIND OF PROBLEM WITH THEM AND THEY NEEDED TO BE PICKED AND DISESTEEMED AND CRUSHES IT WAS A BLAST ABOUT 60 GALLONS WAS THE YIELD,BUT IT DIDN,T END THERE WE DECIDED TO CONTINUE THE HARVEST ING OF THE CONCORD ON TUESDAY MORNING JUST THE FIVE OF US GUYS,FIRST WE MET FOR BREAKFAST ,NEED TO DO THAT BY NINE AM, WE WERE IN THE YARD WITH BASKETS ,SHEARS AND BASKETS,BY 7 O'CLOCK THAT EVENING WE HAD126 GALLONS OF PURE CONCORD IN JUICE FORMAT IN FRONT OF US NOT SO YOUNG AS WE THOUGHT WE WERE OLD MEN,EVERY BONE IN MY BODY ACHED,BUT I WOULDN,T TRADE ANY OF THE PAIN AWAY,FOR THE DAY WAS JUST PERFECT AND OF COURSE WE HAD GOOD WINE TO DRINK ALONG THE WAY,WITH ITALIAN MEATS AND CHEESES,DINNER TIME CAME AND THERE WAS HOME MADE PIZZA AND OF COURSE WINE,NEEDLESS TO SAY WEDNESDAY THERE WAS A NEED TO RECOVER,BUT WHAT A GREAT TIME ,WISH YOU ALL COULD HAVE BEEN THEIR WITH ME,I KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED IT,.

 

[Wade E]

Sounds like a great time Joe.

 

[Bert]

Work can be fun and enjoyable....That makes it so memorable...Sounds like a really good time..

 

[joeswine]

Bert and wade ti was one of the most up lifting times i ever had ,it just was that right.

 

[grapeman]

Hey Joe if you want any more uplifting, I am still picking up here a fe hundred miles north of you in upstate NY-way upstate.

I have been wanting to comment on your post for a couple days, but I have been too busy picking to get enough time. Back to it again tomorrow. My harvest is just getting going and will continue for about 3 weeks, ending with Catawba and Concord.


Everything in the vineyard is enjoyable, but picking is the culmination of a years work. Then you get to make the wine from the grapes and enjoy the process for the next year. Then you get to really enjoy the wine for the next several years. So yes, what you did was a ton of fun, but just the beginning.

 

[joeswine]

A/MAN after two times of doing this from scratch i have developed a real insight in just how much work goes into a real harvest and then to process the fruit,a tremendous amount of love and labor,thank god for 5 and 6 gallon buckets of juice,I,ve got to take my hat off to you people who put out a tremendous effort for the wine,and yet it was a greeeeeeeeaaaaaaaatttttt day and I,will do it again for my wine buddy,,some Day i would like to see you and wade in person were not that far from each other it is possible...................