well after another long, rough week, (feels like i've been working up here for a couple months) ended with the first fruit of the season!!! yea!!! loads more cleaning and helping with this and that for the first part of the week but on thursday we pressed some chenin blanc from washington for our client basket case wines.
here is a link to some pics i took LINK
so far no definite word on when harvest will officially start but it sounds like this week we'll get a little syrah and then slowly more will trickle in but if it rains that means we might get slammed with it all in a week... which is scary to think of.
so this weekend was the preharvest social, and it was a blast!! i carpooled with a few of the other interns and stopped in macminnville and we played a round of disc golf, always fun. then we checked out some new vineyard land the company just bought, some 500 acres. then we headed to where the party was going to be at, the silver falls convention center. started out with a few beers, hacky sack, then some appetizers and wine (so many bottles) then a delicious dinner. followed by a bonfire and chilling out in cabin C. had a great time getting to know everyone just a little better. its seemed like there was endless bottles of wine. not many pictures but heres a link to a few. LINK
heres andrew, dustin and julie!
everyone was moving real slow this morning but we decided to go along with our original plan of hiking the silver falls trail. water was a little low but most of the falls were going. the hike was a little longer than i was expecting but hey its good for me, just wish i didn't sleep through breakfast but had a delicious reubin in silverton on the way back home.
here's betsy, dustin, his gf nell and nate.
posted a few of my fav pics LINK
