Harvest Is Finished

This was the craziest year for harvest.  The wet, cool weather and equipment breaking down.  The new press broke down and we ended up borrowing a wine press from our friends at Strawbale Winery near Sioux Falls, SD.  Ed made it through pressing grapes and needless to say we are not keeping the new press.  Ed is hoping he can spend some time this winter on the old press and try to fix it.

Ed is also busy making small batches of wine from his experimental grapes.  He has about 3 gallons of a red Muscat he's breeding which will make a sweet wine.  It looks very promising and we hope to have a commercial wine available from it in 2010.

We are sold out of several wines now, but will start bottling new wines in November, so it's always an exciting time of the year.  We will also have a Holiday Open House December 6 & 7.