bountiful harvest.

volunteers and staff {front row Angela Moore, Andie Martin and Erica Cyr} after the harvest watching activities on the crush pad
the tools
Sabrina Buehler hard at work on the Pinot Gris
Mike Cyr documenting moving images, while Susan Denice captures these Kodak moments
Jon Edwards on the fork lift as winemaker, Mike Harney pulls Pinot Gris into crusher-destemmer
'The Grizz' as we lovingly call our gorgeous Pinot Gris
Morning light shines through the vineyard canopy
Mike Harney and Justin Sutherland clean up getting ready for the next load from the vineyards
Bill Gedney on the tractor collecting the bins full of grapes to bring back to the crush pad
Andie Martin giving the 'Grizz' a quality control test- big smiles.

This has been quite the week. We are thrilled with our harvest this year. Here in Connecticut the glorious long, hot growing season has brought our grapes to record levels in yield and sugars. With the hard work and farm help of some thirty volunteers a day {thank you!} we have hand-harvested our Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay and could not be more thrilled with our best harvest yet. We have our Cabernet Franc still to go in October. Jon Edwards and Chris Moore {vineyard manager} will be giving you more details in a future post on our 2010 vintage both here and in California, but thought we would share a few photos of the week we had harvesting. While Bob and Karen Edwards are out in Napa overseeing the Harvest there {and patiently waiting for the sugars to rise after a chilly California summer!} we are pulling in the fruit here in Connecticut. We will share more photos of their activities out West this week.

We cannot wait to share with you the fruits of our labor. Cheers.