Flaherty Wines

On 31 March, we harvested the first fruit from our tempranillo vineyard. The vineyard was planted in the summer of 2004, so the vines weren’t carrying a heavy crop. We hired a local gardener and his wife to pick it out, and we picked a couple of rows with our kids. It took about six hours (it’s only a tenth of a hectare), and yielded 1100 kilos of fruit. That should give us about two barrels of wine (225 liters each).