The grapes then go through the crushers/de-stemmer. The crusher/de-stemmer is a stainless steel machine that has a solid outside with a drum...

So after the grapes are taken to the specified crushers, it gets off loaded. The grapes moves through the offloading bin (by means of a scre...

I promised in an earlier post that I would write a couple of entries about the processes involved in getting the grapes from the vineyards t...

I just found these photos on my computer I took last year during harvest. One of our farmers still has a John Deere A tractor - in working c...

What a day! My feet are killing me! The humidity was almost unbearable and the sun was unforgiving. Well, we do farm in Africa, so I can...

Today we harvested Chardonnay for MCC. The grapes looked very good and had a good chemical analysis. ph 3.1, TA - 10 Balling 19. We did abou...

A belated happy new year to all the readers of Darling Vines! I started working on the 5th, and man was it hot! First heat wave of 2011. The...