If you want it done right . . .

Sometimes if you want it done right, you just gotta do it yourself. For quite a few years I have made my own wine and beer. The last few years some friends and I have taken it to a higher level than just pails of juice or cheap grapes at the food terminal. We have ordered grapes from some of the finest vineyards in Napa. We crushed and pressed over a tone of grapes between the six of us. Mostly Cabernet and Syrah. We also made some Concord and Niagra.

Here are some pics of the group hard at work on those Dry Creek grapes.

Brett and Wayne hard at work . . .

And the juices flow . . .

Bud left the office for this . . .

relaxing after the "crush" . . .

Awesome! I'd love to see how much wine actually comes out of that many grapes.

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Look at those blue drums. Those were from an earlier batch of about the same weight.