Red Grape Harvest

Had a bit later harvest for the red grapes that we took on Oct 11/12th. We were going for the extra hang time to fry to bring up the sugars on the Foch a bit and as of Oct 9 Foch was 19.5 brix. The Leon Millot was in the 20-21brix area. Foch below.

Unfortunately we had a huge rain that day as well and by Oct 10 the Foch was reading 18.5 brix and 18.25 on Oct 11 with many grape bunches swollen and splitting from uptake of water in the soil.

In the end the Leon was about 20 and combined we had approximately 19brix. Not the best numbers..19.5 or even 20brix overall is a target but the quality was good with little to no rot.

Huge thank you to the harvest crew this year with my brother Jim, neighbor Frank Raymond, and new addition - Courtney Feeney of Edgewood!

Some othet positives was the Leon is maturing amd producing more and the St. Croix produced big bunches, many in the 125-150grm size at 19brix, with low acid. St.Croix below.

White Grape Harvest

We harvested the white grapes...primarily L'Acadie Blanc and Evangeline at the end of September 28 and shipped to the winery.

Nice grapes little spoilage but the wasps and rodents took thier tool. We lost alot of low hanging fruit on the L'Acadie to skunks and Marmots and lost some to wasps on the Evangeline.

Overall nice crop and it continues to grow as the vines mature. The collective brix was 20.5 and ph was 3.1. These are great numbers for white wine.

There is a general formula used to guage juice chemistry for white grapes and its the brix x (ph x ph). The target is having the result of this formula be close to 200. Of course this is just a general guage for juice chemistry.

Using our numbers we had 20.5 x (3.1 × 3.1) which results as 197. So pretty close to 200.

Awesome weather and the best family harvest crew!