Sandor (Alex) Szabo of Szabo Vineyards sends this brief Harvest Report:
We recently harvested our muscat blanc and orange ----yum-- talk about sugar!
On Tuesday September 25 we harvested the Primitivo and then the Syrah today (Wednesday the 26th September).
We'll be working from 5 am to 11 am if anybody wants to visit: fresh juice to be served!
p.s. From the time of picking to them getting crushed is no more than 25 minutes ....we like it fresh!
About Szabo Vineyards : (from their website http://www.szaborvineyards.com/)
Szabo Vineyards is a small, family-owned operation; the vineyards, 40-acres, are at 1900 feet and on south and west-facing hillsides off of Bitney Springs Road in Nevada City. Sitting almost exactly halfway between Grass Valley and Nevada City, the views include the Pacific Coastal Range and the Sutter and Sierra Buttes.
We are proud of our new winery building, which was designed by architect David Wright of Grass Valley and completed in July 2009. This state-of-the-art, passive solar facility is built into the hillside and was engineered to keep the wines at a constant temperature year-round. We crushed our own grapes at the new winery for the first time in September 2009.
We pride ourselves on the hand-crafted quality of our wines, which are made exclusively from sustainably grown grapes from our mountainside estate. Our Zinfandel, Syrah and Petite Syrah wines are intense and fruit-forward without being dominated by oak.
Growing winegrapes at high elevation is challenging. The wines that result are intense, true to terroir, declarative. The vineyards experiment with varietals and coax the clusters to ripeness in the unique mountain microclimates. The mountain-and-foothill wineries and winepeople work hard. The flavorful wines, sourced from the fruit of the mountains and foothills in various parts of the USA, benefit from the clean air and deep breathing that comes with life at 1300-feet-and-above.
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