Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Marechal Foch Harvest 2009!

The "crush" in action!

Look at these little beauties! All JTV grapes are hand harvested by volunteers into lugs like this.


So pretty.



Collection time for full lugs, backbreaking work, for sure!


Grapes are weighed for historical data purposes.




On the Crushpad! Foch being destemmed and crushed.



The crushing mechanism in action.


The auger that feeds the grapes to the crush gears.


The crushed up Foch as it settles into it's fermentation tank.



The stems - the by-product of the destemming process that become compost.













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