GRAPE CHECK

It is not long before the first harvest in the new cellar. To determine the ripeness of the grapes, Christian performs a grape check using a refractometer. Christian puts a few drops of the grape juice on the glass surface of the refractometer and looks through a kind of lens. The scale inside the refractometer indicates the sugar content of the grape juice in percent and in degrees Oechsle.
Conclusion: The quality of the grapes is very good. If the weather continues to be this nice, the harvest will start in about two weeks.

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