Harvest at Rolling Meadows - 2007

Well, it was a strange year for grapes. It all began to go crazy back last Easter with a killing freeze. (that was good-bye to the red grapes). Next came a drought, followed by 3 weeks of record high temps which bumped harvest up nearly 2 weeks. Somewhere in there we also attracted the attention of a herd of 14 deer who LOVE to eat grapes. Bottom line... it took only 1 weekend to harvest what we usually take 3-4 weekends to harvest. However, thanks to a little help from 3 of our students... we had a great time bringing in the Seyvals and the Niagaras. And remember... there's always NEXT year!

Stacey hunts for Niagaras.


Zach enjoyed driving the tractor.


Ed ran the press.


Eric loads another lug into the crusher/destemmer.


Here comes a nice Seyval Blanc.... stage one!