Sherry, as you know, is not the only wine produced in the
vineyards of Jerez. This lovely photo shows red Petit Verdot grapes being
picked at night by a harvester with a lamp fixed to his head like a miner. In
the background are the city lights of Jerez. High quality table wines have
become more widespread and more important in the Jerez area as a result of the
slide in sales of Sherry. This vineyard belongs to Bodegas Luis Perez, who only
produce table wines. This is their second year of night harvesting, which
brings in cooler grapes which will be less prone to oxidation and which will
allow better control of fermentation. The climate and soils here are ideal for
producing other styles of wine, and have been doing so for decades.
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| (Imagen juancarlostoro.com) |
The Consejo Regulador has announced that 71.49 million kilos
of grapes have now been harvested so far in this year’s campaign, more than
originally estimated, and that the total could reach 75 million in the last
week of the 2013 campaign. Rainfall in March has proved highly beneficial in
providing a crop of quality as well as quantity. Grapes have been pressed in 25
press houses in Jerez, Sanlucar, Rota, Chiclana, Chipiona, Trebujena, Puerto de
Santa Maria and Puerto Real, with a current average sugar content of 11.25
degrees Beaume. The 2013 harvest is beginning to draw to a very satisfactory
close.
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| "And what do you want to be when you grow up, laddie?" "An export Sherry, so I'll be able to see the world" (Peri, Diario Jerez) |
please this pictures of collecting grapes night in jerez is by juancarlostoro.com
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