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Well ,we pressed our first wine on Saturday May 2, Alvaros birthday, so he spent it pressing, our first wine, our Cabernet Sauvignon from around our house in Alto Jahuel. Alvaro finds it deep , full of fruit, and good concentration, now its doing malolactic fermentation in barrels , 5 barrels from our homegrown, and one barrel of press.
Monday we harvested one of our two Carmeneres from Escorial, and on tuesday we crushed some Syrah from Alvaros mom in Isla de Maipo. Tomorrow Saturday May 9, full moon we will be crushing our last Carmenere from Escorial. So we hope it goes well.
After the harvest we waited for the moon at the winery with some friends and had an asado al palo , made by Ian our friend. He started at 3 and we ate around 8 at night, beautiful day.
Monday we got the oldest Carmenere we get from Isla de Maipo planted in 1984 by Alvaros father.
Great grapes.
Our press went bad, so we are waiting for it to be repaired as we are starting to press our Cabernet sauvignon from Escorial, after 25 days of total maceration, the ones we crushed on April 17 and 18.
Today May 12 we have our first rain, so its been a very nice harvest season, and now this little rain is very welcome.
So this afternoon just before the rain we sowed our flowers in between the vines, just in time!
We are planning to get our last grapes in from Isla de Maip o during friday and saturday 15, 16 May!