I had to document the start of my first sugar sample of the 2008 vintage (7am this morning to be exact). The vineyard in the background is a chardonnay block on Sonop, a satellite farm we have a few kms down the road from Backsberg. Taking a sample involves trying to get the precise sugar level of the vineyard. A bunch of grapes tends to ripen from the bottom upwards. Therefore to get an accurate sample one should take grapes from the bottom, middle and top of various bunches throughout the vineyard. One also alternates between the morning and afternoon sun side of the vineyard rows to account for possible differences in this regard.
The net of the sample was that the grapes at this block have a way to go in terms of ripeness.
SB
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