Please join us this Friday at Babi's Tasting Room at 6:00 pm whenSonja Magdevski and Jason Barrette will engage in a lively discussion of what happens now, in the afterglow of harvest, with clean hands (sort of) and rested feet.
I pressed my last batch of grenache into barrels on Tuesday and just like that, it was over. It happens every year. Yet it seems like a surprise when it begins and an utter surprise when it ends. Unceremoniously. Like any other day. Three or four months of the most stressful, time-dedicated, labor intensive activity associated with making wine. And now its gone. Leaves change colors. The vines shut down for the winter, those poor things working so hard all year long. And we think we are exhausted.
When to harvest is perhaps the most important decision to make in the winemaking process. Now all the rest of the work begins, again.
We enter the real world, again. We see our partners and friends, again.
I truly can't tell you what has been happening in the outside world. An election did take place a few weeks ago, I know that. I did manage (barely) to vote.
Join Jason and I to discuss the process, the post-harvest depression that ensues, and the sheer excitement of this new vintage.
We will have barrel samples to taste from the fresh wine!
As ALWAYS - BRING QUESTIONS!
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