We Started!
The last day of summer saw the first day of harvest at Sokol Blosser — eight tons of young Pinot Noir. Because of bad weather during bloom, a light set, and a very dry summer, the clusters were small and weighed in lighter than expected. We expect the whole harvest to be down this year, the first year in a long time that we haven’t had to thin the crop to hold the yields down. Harvest will continue for the next month and we are hoping for warm (not hot) days and cool nights to bring the rest of the vintage in at peak quality.
This photo shows Russ Rosner, winemaker (right), and Doug Vuylsteke, Cellarmaster (left), looking at the grapes before they are spread out on the conveyer to be hand-sorted before going through the destemmer and into the fermenter.