Vineyards
We have had quite a surprise here on the farm. July is usually the time of year that we are getting ready for harvest not actually harvesting grapes, but last week we could tell already that the grapes were getting ready. We have been so busy that I haven’t even put any numbers up for [...]
Wow, I have been so lazzzzy lately. I haven’t been keeping you guys up to date on what is going on here. Instead I have been doing routine stuff like washing clothes, reading to children, teaching them how to find the area of a circle, painting pictures with creative little ones, looking at paintings of [...]
My Honey and I are taking a little break from harvest by attending TWGGA Grape Camp 2010. Grape harvest is over, peanut harvest if over, but cotton harvest is still underway. Most of the family is still at home working on cotton harvest. It takes a lot of helpers to keep that work going.
Last Tuesday night we finished the last of the 2010 grape harvest, Cabernet Sauvignon. Let me tell you, I worked very hard that night. I rode back and forth in the pickup truck as My Honey hauled grapes from the field to the barn to be weighed and loaded on a truck.
2:30 pm 10/4/2010 2006 Tempranillo 25.4,24,4Bx/ph3.76,3.61 2007 Cabernet Sauv. 23.8Bx/ph3.44 2007 Tempranillo 25.0,25.2Bx/ph3.60,3.70 2008 Cabernet Sauv. – Kyle 24.2Bx/ph3.64 2009 Tempranillo – Kyle 26.0,24.0Bx/ph4.01,3.80 We usually try to do samples at the same outdoor temperature each day when we take them. It was cooler today, thus the time of the testing being later than it [...]
