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A group of my friends (some that also blog<\/a>) agreed to get up and meet at our house at 6 am on Saturday to pick grapes.\u00a0 Amazingly, they all showed up early, and had some breakfast then headed out to Fallbrook.\u00a0 Most of the rest of the gang were already there, so we spent a little more time waking up then started picking.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, there had been a major heat wave the past 2 weeks, and about half of the vineyard was raisined.\u00a0 We picked mainly plump fruits with a few raisins added, and were done in about 2 hours with the top and bottom vineyards.\u00a0 We were expecting to take away 1000 pounds, but when we weighed our haul, there was only 242 pounds, including stem weight.\u00a0 Not great, but the fruit is amazing, and the little bit of wine we\u2019ll get should be outstanding.<\/p>\n A group of my friends (some that also blog) agreed to get up and meet at our house at 6 am on Saturday to pick grapes.\u00a0 Amazingly, they all showed up early, and had some breakfast then headed out to Fallbrook.\u00a0 Most of the rest of the gang were already there, so we spent a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,67,60,33,61,4,79,49,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"syrah](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/syrah-raisins.JPG\" "\\"syrah")
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We dumped the grapes into the crusher\/destemmer, and finished processing them pretty quickly.\u00a0 Just in time, too, the sun came out and it got very hot very quickly.\u00a0 Dave and Mike tested the grapes, the must<\/a> was at 26.5 degrees brix<\/a> and pH 3.5.\u00a0 We added some dry ice for a 2-day cold soak, then started the harvest picnic.\u00a0 It was a fun day, even if we didn\u2019t get quite as much as we had hoped for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"