Harvest 2005: Fairview Pinot Noir- Pick

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The Fairview Road Ranch Pinot Noir (Santa Lucia Highlands) was harvested on Sept 19, 2005. We harvested 2 tons of clone 667 and 1.5 tons of clone Pommard 4.

  1. Waking up
  2. Morning
  3. Pickers, heading out
  4. Tractor
  5. Pinot Noir cluster
  6. Brian Rothbert
  7. Kyle Loudon
  8. Shala Loudon
  9. Jamie
  10. Brian Rothbert
  11. Row of Syrah
  12. Syrah cluster
  13. Syrah grapes
  14. Kirk Williams
  15. One vine of white, amidst the Pinot Noir
  16. Portable relief.
  17. Pickers, on a row of Pinot Noir
  18. Two tons of Pinot
  19. Bins are loaded onto the truck
  20. Bins are removed from the truck
  21. Sasha explaining the process
  22. Ghosts in the machine
  23. Sasha mixing dry ice into the must
  24. Sasha is the devil
  25. Moving the must
  26. Picking out stems
  27. Kyle and Ken, filling the crusher/destemmer
  28. Brian adds SO2
  29. Measuring Brix (Sugar levels)
  30. Kyle mixing dry ice into the must
  31. Kyle mixing dry ice into the must

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