Sunday afternoon we joined Max and Jen Jensen’s and a group of friends at Sojen Cellars winery located in Everett, Washington. Max just made the trip from Eastern Washington wine country with a truck full of syrah and Viognier grapes. Our job was to clean the equipment, keep the winery clean, crush the grapes, and press the Viognier.
The non glamorous part of wine making is the cleaning. Cleaning and sweeping, over and over again…
Pressing the Viognier was a blast, work but fun. Watching the must (juice) flow into the bucket was interesting. Some folks were taking the grape press cake ( skins after pressing) home to compost.
Most of the evening we spent crushing the syrah, by the way the grapes were delicious. Can’t wait to taste Sojen Cellars 2010…
Looks like you had a great time. One of these days I'm going to make it to Sojen when they are open.
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