Here are a couple clusters of Chardonnay. Notice that they are taking on a slight yellow hew. These grapes
give our unoaked wine the yellow tint in the bottle. If the grapes are exposed to sun as these are and the temperature does not get too high, which it seldom does here at 2800 ft, we get good color and not sunburn that comes with hotter temperatures.
In the photo below the grapes are still quite green although both these and the ones above have about the same sugar. These grapes are in the shade 100% of the time so will not change color much. They are beautiful looking grapes.
The grapes in this photo are Cabernet Sauvignon. You can see that some of the grapes are still green while some have started to turn purple. Still not half way through verasion which is when the grapes start turning from green to purple and the sugar starts increasing from none to some and eventually to 23 to 26% whatever the winemaker wants.
This is the third week of verasion
