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Vine to vino for Napa Valley grapes
It's still summer in California's Napa Valley but harvest has already begun for their renowned sparkling wines.
Grapes used for sparkling wines are harvested several weeks in advance of still wines, and this year is no exception with workers heading to the vineyards ten days ahead of last year's harvest.
The sparkling wine harvest can sometimes begin as early as late-July, and will continue through into late-September.
Napa Valley's 2013 grapes have flourished during a warm, dry summer putting some at risk, but grape growers are confident this harvest will be of high quality.
Napa Valley grapes are big business - last year's harvest was worth more than $650 million (USD) with the average ton of grapes valued at $3,500 (USD).
Pickers such as these often arrive as early as dawn in order to harvest the grapes and deliver them to wineries before the Californian sun warms them after a night in the cool air.
This ensures the grapes are delivered chilled, minimising the need to cool them once they arrive.
The pickers work quickly and skillfully to get the most out of their work, which is regularly paid per ton of grapes.
This particular block will yield around five tons of Chardonnay grapes destined for Mumm Napa, a winery in the Napa Valley.
Anthony Weytjens manages this north California region for Atlas Vineyard Management as part of a 2,000 acre portfolio across the U.S. states of California and Oregon.
In general it's been a very early year this year. We're about 10 days ahead of last year depending on the season. And also picking early for the sparkling programs. The wine makers and just the sparkling programs require the acids to be much higher so wine makers will usually come into the vineyards and do a lot of analysis, maturity analysis, and then decide to pick earlier to go to that sparkling program. So these grapes are about 19 brix (a measurement of sugar content in grapes before they are harvested, grapes are generally harvested at 20 to 25 brix) and it's our first pick and the only one for today, says Weytjens.
Mumm winemaker Ludovic Dervin, a native of France's Champagne region, helps kick off the Napa Valley harvest with numerous workers from the region.
The crop looks good and healthy this year so wine makers are in high spirits with the thought of a bumper season.
Derwin says their harvest has come ahead of schedule.
The entire growing season has been on the early side since budbreak. Approximately 10 to 15 days earlier than average. We are now looking at a generous crop level with very high quality vintage both for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the two main materials we use to craft our sparkling wines, says Derwin.
The sparkling grape harvest is always the first of the season, later followed by Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and then Carbernet Sauvignon later in the year.
Derwin says several factors go into the final decision of when to pick Napa Valley's sparkling wine grapes.
We regularly go to the vineyards a few times a week and we get some berry samples which we bring back to our laboratory where we analyze the sugar content and the acidity. But the decision to make the pick when to harvest is made by tasting the grapes on the field, walking the rows, looking at the grapes, and tasting them to make sure they have the right flavor profile that we are looking at, says Derwin.
Once the grapes have been picked, wine makers make plans to crush the cooled grapes as soon as they arrive from the vineyards to ensure maximum freshness from their new harvest.
Tasters take grape samples and use a refractor to examine the amount of sugar in their juice, ensuring a sufficient level of alcohol within their wines.
The journey from vine to vino is all set to begin again.
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