Our first harvest was finally underway here at Pumpjack & Piddlewick after many years of searching. We were very excited, to be sure. But amongst the excitement was still the day to day of winemaking, cleaning and … beer. The Sexy Side of Winemaking There’s an adage in the worldContinue Reading
A year in, and our first harvest was in! It was been made into wine and was in barrel. I for one was really proud. It was a lot of hard work, through out the year, to make the vineyard produce something we could actually harvest. Twelve hour days, 7Continue Reading
You watch the vines come to life in the spring and then slowly the leaves start to unfurl and tiny grapes begin to make themselves shown. You harvest, you press and ultimately you make wine. Then you watch, wait, test, test again, keep testing, adjust, taste, adjust, put in aContinue Reading
There’s a term in the the wine industry, a ‘Harvest Widow’. In the early part of my life with an oenologist partner, I had been a harvest widow many times (before I learned enough to work myself in the wine industry). In fact I was a widow 3 times. No,Continue Reading
September is a balancing act of preparation and patience in the wine world, as we wait for the starter gun to fire. The call would come in “We have to pick NOW!” And I would drop everything. It’s all Go! Go! Go! when it comes to harvest time in aContinue Reading
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