Wow. Some of my first posts last year were about Veraison…and here we are again. Well, sorta, cause as noted, we’re running later this year. At any rate, some pix:

A little color at last...

It’s nice to see some color, finally. This color came in last Tuesday-Wednesday during our three day ‘heat wave’. Heat wave roughly defined as ‘temperature over 90′. We’ve got another one today-looks like the temperature might actually get to 93 or so! Whew.

At any rate, all of these cool temperatures mean that harvest will start later this year than last year-probably in mid October. Which day it will be will probably depend a lot more on the rain forecast in October and how quickly all the wineries can move fruit in. But it’s two or so months away-anything can happen. Like a heat wave in September? That’d be nice…

Be careful of your fingers!

One thing we/I do when we’re going to run late like this is to thin the crop down. Less crop should mean the grapes that are left will get riper quicker-something we’ll need this year, I think.

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