These are images of the pickers early in the morning. They have been picking since 3:00am. The fog has lifted but has not completly rolled back, by 10:00am it should be sunny and warm. This week the weather has been ideal — warm low 80s with a pleasant cooling breeze.
The Pinot Noir harvest is below normal — maybe 25% below — the clusters are small and the grapes are small. Look for dark and intense Pinots this year. We cannot account for the low yields, since other varieties appear normal, but we suspect that an early spring frost might have damaged the vines. The logic here is that Pinot Noir is the first to bud and the other varieties might have still been dormant — even the canopy seems a little sparse with shorter canes than normal.
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