RULES
OF THE HARVEST!
You, or your
replacement, must
be here when the grapes are here!
- No refunds except in the event of a
natural disaster!
- Cancellation only until one week before harvest!
- If you are going to be out of town, be sure to have a team/someone ready to pick up and process your order!
This is not a big deal. They just need to bring your container for the crushed grapes
or Chardonnay juice. There's always plenty of hands available to help.
- Call us for scheduling solutions! 800-559-9922
Plan to pay your balance when the grapes
arrive.
- Checks, charges, or exact cash.
- Your grapes are picked at maximum maturity.
The grower
dictates the date and time.
This is the only way to get the best
fruit that we all expect.
You will be crushing the day/night your grapes arrive!
This usually means a weekday. Late
afternoon - early evening,
and early the next day.
We highly suggest that you make the effort needed
to
fit this schedule!
Grapes not crushed by you when
they arrive, will be crushed, sulfited, acidified, dry iced and ready for your pick-up on the following Sunday AM. They
will have to be bucketed, by you, from our bins into your bucket and weighed.
This is only a labor disadvantage.
All grapes will be processed,
by you, at The
Daume Winery ("Camarillo Custom Micro-Crush") in
Camarillo
(www.homebeerwinecheese.com
click on "Daume" for map)
- We'll email you for an appointment time the moment
the grower calls us.
- It is your responsibility to
know when the grapes are due
to arrive and to be there at the appointment time!
- Please call us as often as possible,
at least once a week, since
the
grower only knows a few days ahead of the harvest date.
(Tuesday, after 3:00
is the best time)
800-559-9922
- It's expected that
you will arrive promptly at your appointment time!
Plan to relax and enjoy yourself.
Help out those winemakers before you.
Then stay and help the newer ones.
It's a lot more fun this way and we all can use the help.
We'll get you in and out as fast as possible. Only one person or group of friends
can go at a time.
- Pick up the handouts. Enjoy and share the wine and snacks that
you've brought. Socialize. Pitch in and
help each other.
- When called forward, pay off your order (check/exact
cash/charge); pick up your
specialized yeast and M-L culture
(one empty wine bottle/100 lbs
is needed) and step-by-step instructions.
- Then, using our commercial de-stemmer, process your red grapes.
(You'll need one 20 gallon food
grade, extra strong bucket per
150 lbs grapes)
- Or, pick up your white juice.
(You'll need
plastic
bottles or buckets)
No Glass Permitted at the crush!
- Add SO2 and adjust pH, as instructed..…and, smiling, head for home.
- When your grapes are ready to press,
bring them to The Shop
in Woodland Hills. The use of our big press,
by you, is
part of the price.
Get
your equipment now! Do not wait until it’s sold out.
There will not be any equipment to sell at The Daume Winery.
Get what you need at The Shop, well before crush time!