As the clock clicks down to another harvest, it’s time to make some room in the winery. Here are a series of short videos and time lapses of our most recent bottling of Dysfunctional Family 2017 “Red Blend”.
Starting with some barrels full of the wine:
Seven short bottling videos to view in sequence:
conveying clean bottles and flushing with inert gas
filling bottles with the red blend
add a nice matte black capsule
time lapse of the bottling line
time lapse viewed from a catwalk above the bottling line
Federal law requires that we check the fill level to assure every bottle meets/exceeds 750ml. This device assures that level of accuracy.
The first case off the line of 2017 Dysfunctional Family Winery “Red Blend”
The 2017 Dysfunctional Family Red Blend labels:
Hillside Cabernet vineyard on Sonoma Mountain waiting to harvest, brix as of September 2nd were around 18 (+/- 1.5) heading toward 24-26.
Squeezing in the annual ‘trimming of the palms’ before harvest…
chainsaw trimming the Canary palm
Canary palm all cleaned up, with the Hydeout Sagrantino ripening in the background…
Event: Sonoma International Film Festival ‘outdoor movie event’ at the Hydeout
Friday, September 20th, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense
Buy tickets to 9/20 showing of “Stop Making Sense” at the Hydeout
Wondering if I could get some of your Onitnargas wine?
Wonderful update and images!
I am returning to Sonoma on 12th thru 16th. Hoping this year, Hydeout will call me to help with Harvest!