Monthly Archives: August 2007

The harvest equipment is cleaned up and ready to go

By Katie | Published: August 18, 2007

We are expecting some grapes to show up this afternoon. They will be arriving too late to process today, so we’ll be up early tomorrow morning with the first press load. The machine in front is a destemmer/crusher and the yellow machine behind is the press (called a horizontal basket press). Keep your fingers crossed for [...]

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Harvest is almost here!

By Katie | Published: August 17, 2007

We will be processing grapes on Sunday and Monday. It’ll be a crazy weekend here since we are expecting three different growers to be bringing grapes by. We’ll process Vignoles, Cayuga White, and Chardonel. This is the normal time to harvest Cayuga White. Due to lower crop levels and all the heat we’ve been experiencing [...]

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Beverage marketing + not enough customers today =

By Katie | Published: August 11, 2007

Waaaaaay to much time on our hands! We visited one of the up-and-coming ‘health’ water websites and found ourselves commenting on their commercials. They are all narrated by the same Australian guy who orders you around at the top of his voice. If that is what you’d like, then by all means, watch our new [...]