Grapes 2007

Fall 2007

Freed Estate Vineyards had a wonderful harvest season this year! Here are some photos:

The grapes are looking beautiful and ready to go.



HARVEST!

Mike clipping bunches of Cabernet Sauvignon

Bryan's girlfriend, Nathalie, and her mom helped

Juan and Maria

David and Richard

Loading buckets

Joey and Bryan transferring buckets to bins

Bryan pouring grapes into a bin

Mike gives cribbage advice in the middle of the harvest!

Tania and Joey gather full buckets and hand out empty ones

Joey and Tania bring full buckets to pour in the bins

Joey and Tania pour grapes in the bins

Beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon grapes

Lunch break!

Pam and Mike taking their lunch break

HARVEST PARTY!

Pam and Mike decided to have a Harvest Party to celebrate such a great year. It was held in the new (unfinished) barn, and we all wore costumes. It was a blast!

The grandkids, Tania and Talula, dressed up as the cutest kitties ever

Candice and Talula

We had a hobo-can fire outside the barn

Cindy and Bobby

Wild Bill, Jim Beam, and Mike gathered around the hobo-can fire

Some trouble-makers

Wayne and Joey looking better than ever

John James showed everyone how to do the Two-Step

More Two-Step

John and Kathy James

Mary Beam and John James

Jim Beam and Pam

Mike and Cindy

Even Talula and Tutu did some dancing

Other fun things to do during fall in the area:

Picking apples at the James Orchard

Visiting the Kruse Farms pumpkin patch