We finally picked some Pinot Noir yesterday. It was our Block 1 Pommard which was planted in 2000. It's been the first block picked for the last four years. Yield was only 1.5 tons per acre and 3 tons total. We would have been much closer to 2T/acre if we hadn't had the dehydration that you can see in the last post. There are some pictures of the bins at crush pad, a bin loaded in the sorting line and some clusters on their way to the destemmer. We filled two fermenters - each with 1.5 tons of fruit. We dumped one bin of fruit directly into the fermenter and then destemmed and crushed three bins to wind up with 25% whole clusters. We'll be picking more later this week.
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