Harvesting – Is it the best time of the season?
Usually the answer is yes, but sometimes it has been challenging.
There are a few harvests that really stand out in our memory. One of them was our first harvest. We were still at the naive and inexperienced stage. We had been walking up and down admiring this beautiful fruit for weeks. Then the harvesting crew came in with a professional eye. Fruit that wasn’t good enough was dropped. Fruit that showed any sign of not being ripe enough was ignored. Shoulders on bunches were cut off, as they weren’t ripe enough to go into the wine. Berries which the birds had pecked through the nets were flicked off.