The 2009 growing season is now history. Harvest this year stretched out over more than 6 weeks, starting on September10 with 300 pounds of syrah picked for rosé. We picked another 300 pounds of syrah on September 25 for our house wine, The Odyssey, and finally deemed the 200 pounds of cabernet sauvignon ripe enough to harvest on October 25.

In the middle of October, we did two separate harvest operations for our commercial client, Robert Biale Vineyards. The first pick, 2.1 tons, beat the rainstorm. The second pick, a week later, was only slightly worse for the wear, and came in at 2.7 tons.

Considering that more than 25% of our vines were grafted over this year -- from syrah to grenache -- and produced no fruit, we were pretty happy with the yield. More importantly, the quality of the fruit was excellent, making us and the folks at Biale very happy.

That’s most of the vineyard news.  We’ve given the KFV website a completely new look; webmaster Deb gave up her PC for a Mac. She decided to “drink the Apple kool-aid” and used iWeb to design and publish the site. Enjoy all the changes, and let us know if anything got lost or garbled in the transition. Updates on the wines, the critters, and our happy visitors / Cheers page can be found via the navigation bar across the top of the page.

Cheers, L’Chaim, Salute!

Deb and John

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