Wine Adventures 2005

These are pictures of our wine making operation.

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Grapes in hand

More grapes ..

Loading up the buckets for crushing

Loading up the crusher

Crushing by the bucketful

Filling up the crusher

Frank in bin

Just starting to crush

What the bunch looks like before and after crushing

Ongoing crush operations

Our container is getting full

Getting every last grape out - don't fall in

Showing off the great grapes

Crushing done, now time to start fermentation

Start of the fermentation process

Adding the yeast ... we're ready to go

Getting guidance from the master

Is it fermenting yet?

Can't wait

Pouring the juice and skins into the press

pouring fermented juice into the press

Free run juice

Getting rid of the pressed cake so we can continue

Pressing again

Pressing every last drop

Pressing the skins to extract more juice

Jerry keeping an eye on the wine

That's lots of must and will make lots of wine

We have to sample, don't we

Chuck sampling the wine juice

Our barrel room

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