The sun did not come out until 4 pm. We are a little apprehensive, but will be receiving two tons of Teldeschi zin tomorrow. I spent almost all my day tending to my computer. We had many problems which meant I had to go to Santa Rosa for repairs. It is too involved and I would get more upset.
Some problems remain unresolved.
We are still scheduled to crush our first Zinfandel tomorrow. We crushed our first grapes today from the Teldeschi vineyard, our neighbor right next door. Since it is contiguous to our property, the possibility of using it for our estate wines exists. Two tons of Zinfandel were harvested and Brendan and I spent the morning hand selecting, de-stemming and crushing. Even though we would have liked to have had 23.0 to 24.0 brix and the sugar reading came in at 22.6 initially, we are so happy with the quality, flavors and the way the grapes looked and tasted, that we know we should be able to make great wine from this juice.