Went to our local winery to help with the harvest along with 40-50 others, it was a blast, and a beautiful day, we drank some great wines, had a real nice BBQ lunch provided by BenMarl winery, followed by a Hudson Valley Wine and Homebrew club meeting, we had a great turn out, everyone brought their wine and more food (love that part...LOL) really nice topics that sparked a lot of conversation and presentations.
The icing on the cake was when BenMarl's GM let us know that they had contacted Frank Musto of M&M and set up a deal to have the clubs bulk order shipped to the winery instead of traveling to CT, he also let me know that he will let us use the huge crusher destemmer for all of our grapes!
This has now changed my game plan, instead of making all Juice pails and adding fresh grapes, I'll be making wine from fresh grapes also!
My hat goes out to the folks at Benmarl Winery, they let us use their facility, help us any way that they can, and now, they're even helping us to make our wine making experience even better!!!!
A great day!!