We started Sunday out with breakfast at the Barn. It's a place in Prosser that looks like it is the all round fun place to be. Restaurant, bar, night club!
The lady working the bar was not very happy we were there. Her overall attitude told us she would have preferred we went somewhere else, or at least to someone else's section. But we made her struggle through and had a highly serviceable breakfast.
We headed to Kestrel to pick up our case and then to Mercer for a bit of wine tasting.
Then we were off to pursue the real reason we were in Prosser.
We got 108 pounds of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from our grape dealer, Patricia and George O'Brian of Vineheart Vineyards. We left them a bottle of our Tempranillo that we made from the grapes we got from them two years ago. We hope they liked it better than the judges at the fair.
We were ready to hit the road after that and it was only 1:00. We managed to stop at a couple more wineries on our way out of town and then we just motored our way back to Spokane. We got home about 4:30.
Patricia was unable to crush the grapes for us this year which led to a giant dilemma. We have hand crushed this amount of grapes in the past and it is not fun. It took us four hours and we were dead tired afterwards.
Fortunately, I was able to call on my friend John, who operates a small winery east of downtown. He let us bring our grapes over today during an extended lunch and we got them crushed. The set up took about 15 minutes, the crushing took about 5 minutes and the clean up took about half an hour.
I'm going to keep my eye open for a used crusher/destemmer but it is hard to justify the expense for something we would use once a year. Still, I might come across something.
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