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Usually sometime in the middle of the vintage the autumn break arrives. |  |
The autumn break is the first rain to break the summer warm and dry weather. It can be spectacular. |
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The grapes take up water through their skin and become watery, as the high sugar content gives them a negative osmotic pressure. |
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| Only time and a good vineyard site with well-draining soil can repair the damage. |  |
But now it is autumn. It is cooler, the sun is lower in the sky and shadows fall. Grape development is now much slower, but well worth waiting for. |
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The king of the grapes, Caberent Sauvignon ripens now. |  |
| Picking goes on... |  |
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By now our pickers are fast and accurate. |  |
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And then, quite suddenly, all the grapes are gone. And then the pickers are gone, too... |
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| It is hard to believe that another vintage is over. |  |
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