It's pickin' season!

Woohoo! It's very nearly time to start picking the Jaboticaba fruit!

A jaboticaba is a Brazillian tree grape, which we use to make our Tawny's, fortified wine, liqueurs...and soon to be table wine (all going well!)

We have about 400 trees on our property and some are starting to fruit. I haven't googled it, but I'm pretty sure we would have one of the largest plantations of Jaboticaba in Australia. It's relatively unknown, but SO DELICIOUS! The only problem with it, is that once it's ripe, it doesn't last very long and starts to ferment in its own sugars.

Great for winemaking (yay!) but pretty crap as a commercial crop.

So, it looks like we have a very busy few months ahead of us!

One of our Jaboticaba trees. When the fruit is dark purple, plump and shiny - it's go time!