As the summer progresses here at Cave Vineyard, so do the activities. Yes, our cave is cool! As the summer days grow warmer, more folks are coming to enjoy the coolness of the cave. Three of our grandsons who were vacationing with us last week were thrilled when a semi delivered another piece of harvest equipment. It is always exciting to watch these deliveries being unloaded and to realize we are really doing this! The kids were not only excited to watch this huge semi maneuver our tight driveway and dock but they got to climb up into the cab and see what it was like. Turned out, the driver has grandchildren also. Harvest will be especially exciting this year after last year’s unusually small amount of grapes (due to the frost). This year’s harvest looks very promising and it will be the first year that we will crush and press our own grapes in our new equipment.
Vineyard work continues to keep our terrific crew busy. “Newbie” was hedging the vines today and “Vineyard Mistress” will be doing petiole samples (checking the nutrients the vines are absorbing from our soil) today. These samples are taken at bloom and verasion. The rock clean up in the new vineyard has also begun. This is a good job for grandsons, right? Well, I thought so and declared that I would pay $5 for every 5 gallon bucket (thinking they would only do 1 or less buckets). After they were on the second and third bucket I knew I was in trouble, so after 2 buckets the price went down to $1 per 5 gallon bucket. They all soon decided it was too hot to work and they were hungry. Love my grandsons!
Until next time…
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