What do you do when it keeps raining?
Well....first of all, you try to remember that you live in Oregon and that this is normal. Then you fight the "AAAHHH, is it ever going to stop?" panic. When you've finally calmed down, you start working on cool, useful things. Athena and our friend Anna spent the day building cool new Tyvek lids for our 1.5 ton fermenters. They did an AWESOME job of getting about a dozen of them cut and sewn...You might ask, "Why are tyvek lids so cool?" Well, they breath (no codensate falling back into the wine), they're easy to clean, and they help us maintain better temperature control of the ferments...basically, it's a winemaker geek thing.
Other Happenings
Otherwise, we're probably over-prepared for fruit now. All the barrels are in the racks, everything's clean and ready to go...and we might actually get the morning off on Saturday.
I'll be in touch with everyone regarding picking dates, and I'll try to get some more interesting info up on the web soon. In a more abbreviated version, I'm also launching a "Harvest Notes" section on our web site - check it out and let me know what you think.
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