FRIDAY ~ 5:00 pm
Saturday ~ 3:00 pm
We can’t tell you how absolutely excited – and nervous – we are to be getting our hands on locally grown grapes for the first time. Twelve thousand pounds of carefully nurtured and lovingly tended grapes are being picked at their peak of ripeness in Erskine, Minnesota and delivered to 4e Winery in two loads on October 2 and 3. These will be crushed, pressed and fermented to make next year’s wines.
We could use some help. The red wine grapes need to be crushed and put into fermenters. The white and rose wines need to be pressed and their juice put into tanks for fermentation. This is all done by hand one bucket at a time, one press at a time. No, we won’t be stomping grapes in a tub, but we will need help moving grapes and juice. So if you can pick up and carry somewhat heavy buckets of grapes and juice, we would welcome your assistance.
We are going to make a working party out of it. We anticipate the grapes arriving Friday between 5-6 and Saturday in mid afternoon.. We plan to work until the job is done. But we will break for dinner. We’ll feed you and of course there will be plenty of drinks and fun.
Dress for work – you will want to wear clothes that you don’t mind getting stained with grape juice.
PLEASE RSVP so we can plan for food and drink.
Thank you – see you at Grape Crush 2015!
Please join us for our second Grape Vine Planting day at 4e Winery. We are excited to be starting our new venture as a North Dakota vineyard and winery. Our winery is located just SE of the I-94 Casselton exit. It is the first farmstead that you see from the road. Turn east on the frontage road and take the first right. You can’t miss it. We will be planting 80 Frontenac vines and may need some help installing trellises. We appreciate all the help we can get. We will gather at 10:00 am to start the day. Lunch and of course wine will be provided.
