{"id":811,"date":"2008-10-03T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/03\/harvest-time\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:37:16","slug":"harvest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/03\/harvest-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An annual ritual<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The crew arrives at 6:30. It&#8217;s still dark.<\/p>\n<p>For $7 an hour these great people work insanely hard and by noon we will have twenty of these bins containing 10 tons of the finest Zinfandel grapes in the world; the area where I live &#8211; the Templeton Gap in Central California &#8211; is renowned for its Zinfandel varietals above all else.<\/p>\n<p>Then the vines will gracefully shed their leaves, the crew will return to prune them to a nub and another growing cycle is complete.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Harvest2008.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, I find myself wondering, as a great American farmer, where&#8217;s my government subsidy?<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Harvest2008_2.jpg><br \/>\n<i>A final check of Brix (sugar content)<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The wine grower is required, by contract, to provide grapes with a certain Brix level &#8211; 25 to 28 for Zinfandel.  I&#8217;m at 26.5 which is just about right.  The tool in the picture is a refractometer, a nice optical device as old as Sir Isaac Newton.  A drop of grape juice on the lens, a peek through the eyepiece and Brix is determined.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the regular topics tomorrow. Now please excuse me, I have to go tread on some grapes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An annual ritual. The crew arrives at 6:30. It&#8217;s still dark. For $7 an hour these great people work insanely hard and by noon we will have twenty of these bins containing 10 tons of the finest Zinfandel grapes in the world; the area where I live &#8211; the Templeton Gap in Central California &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/10\/03\/harvest-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harvest time!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}