Harvest 2024 begins.

All of our estate fruit, estimated at around 300 pounds, was unfortunately enjoyed by raccoons this year. Its not the first time they have cleaned us out, a small family of raccoons can eliminate out small harvest in just a couple of nights, we are going to try to make sure it is the last. Unfortunately, planting a small vineyard is often only enough to feed the local wildlife population while leaving no grapes for the overworked vigneron.

Fortunately, we are not the only grape growers in Missouri and we were able to procure a little more than 2 tons of Norton from Cave Vineyard in Ste. Genevieve. The grapes were unloaded late last night and we plan to begin direct pressing them tonight. And so it begins..