Weather Looking Good:

• Sunshine is in the forecast until around Oct 7th! This is absolutely perfect for this year. All the fruit in our vineyards is creeping along toward ripeness, and if the temperature and sunshine hold, we should have everything into the winery by ~ Oct 3-5.
• All this heat will absolutely push ripeness along. Two days ago, I wasn't thinking we were going to pick anything ahead of next weekend. Now I'm sure that we'll have somewhere between 6-10 tons of fruit in the winery by next Sunday. Which leads me to....

First fruit in the winery on Tuesday this week!!!

• We are expecting to have our first 1.5 tons into the winery on Tuesday
• The fruit comes from Carlton Hill, which is a new site to us this year. The fruit will be a mix of Dijon 115 and 777 clone, and should be dark, flavorful, and in good shape. David Polite (owner and vineyard dude extrordinaire) should be on hand, hopefully.
• If anyone's interested in sorting fruit, we're planning on hitting the winery with fruit around 11 am, which means we'll be on the sorting line sometime between 11 am and 1 pm. Please just drop me an e-mail (stewart@boedeckercellars.com) or a call (503.866.6699) if you'd like us to wait to start sorting before you arrive.

Harvest notes on boedeckercellars.com: Please give us feedback regarding my new public bloggish thing (http://www.boedeckercellars.com/Boedecker%20Cellars%20Harvest%20Updates.htm). I'll tweak as I go, but I'd be curious what you, your friends, and/or your mothers all think and what folks would rather see.

Talk to you soon - sb