Spring Hollow Vineyard

2020 Harvest is done. We harvested 1900 lbs. of our zinfandel in 2.5 hours with the help of 16 people. We sold 1100 lbs. to the same local winemaker we sold to in 2014 and kept 800 lbs and pressed it off (free run) to 40 gallons of juice. We will make year's this vintage into a rose’ wine. This year's harvest was different with health & safety of high priorty: everyone wore masks and we had lots of sanitizer available. The air quality was great to be outside. Thanks to everyone that participated!

Fall is finally happening in the vineyard.

The vineyard finally turning to its Fall colors.

Veraison is happening, suckers are pruned, and vineyard is mowed. Next is netting the vines to keep those darn pesky birds from eating the .

We have large clusters just starting in veraison.

The vineyard is growing very vigorously. Berrys are at 3/16th in diameter.

The weather is perfect for spring growth in the vineyard.

Vineyard all pruned to 2 buds.

Beautiful day for a harvest. 2019 SHV harvest is now in the record books. Thanks to all that helped...got it done in two hours. Now Griffin Hill Vineyard will create beautiful Zinfandel wine with the .

The vines haven’t experience this in their 10 years of life here.

Lastly, the cleanup and I get to play with the powerwasher.

And then there was juice

Stirring must before pressing from the pressing.

Scott and I pressed of 144 gallons of wine from the the must of the 2018 harvest. The extra hour helped. We did it in 4 hours from set up to cleanup.

Our vineyard view of the sunset last night.

Thank you to all that helped make our 2018 harvest a success on Saturday. The clusters were large and beautiful. This was our largest harvest ever as we brought in 4440 lbs. of our zinfandel , of which nearly 2700 lbs were sold to Griffin Hill Vineyards. Now the wine making task begins and the vineyard can have a well deserved drink of water and gently rest.