{"id":100,"date":"2007-09-21T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/i-started-harvesting-grapes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T13:00:28","slug":"i-started-harvesting-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/i-started-harvesting-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"I Started Harvesting Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/20070919 - price grape harvest.jpg\" alt=\"Dark purple grapes, still on stems, set inside a bowl.\" title=\"The 2007 harvest of Price grapes - 17 oz (500 g)\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/critters-in-the-vineyard\/\">incursion<\/a> into my bonsai vineyard on Wednesday knocked some grapes to the ground. I gathered these up, ate some, discarded some, and froze the rest. This was the official, if unintentional, start to my grape harvest and it totaled 3 oz (100 g) of Leon Millot. At that point, I decided to bring in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/siegerrebe\/\">Siegerrebe<\/a> and the Price. They&#8217;re both early ripeners and they seemed ripe when I tasted them. I hand destemmed, lightly washed and froze the grapes. So in addition to my Leon, I&#8217;ve got:<\/p>\n<p>11.5 oz (375 g) of Siegerrebe from 1 vine<br \/>\n17 oz (500 g) of Price from 2 vines (I have three, but one didn&#8217;t bear this year)<\/p>\n<p>After harvesting three of the eight vines that will bear this year, I have 9.5 oz (290 g) per vine. If that&#8217;s the yield I get for the Leon Millot and the Pinot Noir, then I&#8217;ll get 4.75 lb (2.3 kg) total this year. Um, that&#8217;s a bit less than the 20 lb (9 kg) I wanted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incursion into my bonsai vineyard on Wednesday knocked some grapes to the ground. I gathered these up, ate some, discarded some, and froze the rest. This was the official, if unintentional, start to my grape harvest and it totaled 3 oz (100 g) of Leon Millot. At that point, I decided to bring in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viticulture","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}