ice wine, anyone?

SO I spent the morning harvesting grapes for ice wine. This means picking grapes that have frozen on the vine, and indeed by Nov1 we have had 5 hard freeze  nights in Shingle Springs. A local winery, Chavalier, put out a call to wine club members to help harvest these frozen nuggets before they all turn to moldy mush. it was very tedious, there was mold than good grapes. But we did get a nice lunch! Ice wine production will only be available to Wineclub members I understand. It was a fun day, interesting people showed up, good conversation.