I must say in all my years it has never started with this much bang! We started vintage 2008 today picking in a freak lighting and thunder storm. According to news reports 2500 plus lightning bolts filled the morning sky's over San Luis Obispo. This was the earliest pick I can remember.
We picked half of our block today. Got .8 tons total. Flavors and numbers look great.
One bolt hit just over the hill from where we were picking and it sent the whole crew and us (Leslie- Talleys winemaker, Kevin-Talleys vineyard manager) back a few feet. Quite the experience.....when we were done picking we could see three fires in the hills above the winery.
Click below for the local story on the storm....
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/breakingnews/story/440220.html
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