White grape harvest

white grapes petit mensang and gros mensang

  

white grape vines

This good fruit year extends to grape, all the 5 years old white vine plants have decent bunches of healthy looking and very tasty grapes. 

harvested white grapes

As for white wine, we like a bit more acid level compare with red wine, decided to harvest white grapes first, leaving the red grapes to acquire a bit more sugar.

de-stemmed white grapes

Grapes are harvested by hand, de-stemmed to reduce tannin, then cracked by a roller. A small quantity of neutral wine yeast is added into the small tank of crushed white grapes to kick start fermentation. Expecting to have 70 bottles of white wine.

cracking white grapes

punching down fermenting white grapes