🍇 Harvest 2026 is a wrap — 14,993 lbs picked by hand. Thank you, pickers! →
Pajarito Farms
Harvest Recap
Harvest bins full of dark grapes in the truck bed

Harvest 2026 · Complete

That's a wrap. Thank you.

Four weekends, 14,993 pounds, and a whole lot of neighbors — our first harvest is in. Every cluster was cut by hand, most of them by you.

Every picker is a founding wine club member — first pours when the wine is ready.

Weekend 1
15 & 16
August · picked
Weekend 2
22 & 23
August · picked
Sun only
30
August · picked
The finale
5 & 6
September · picked

All four weekends picked, every date a green checkmark in our book. The 2026 harvest is complete.

The fruit: all of it is in — 14,993 pounds across ten varieties, from four thousand pounds of Grüner down to thirty-six precious pounds of Tempranillo. The surprise of the year was the Grüner Veltliner: barely 300 pounds last season, 4,168 this year — the young vines came of age all at once. The Chambourcin finale added 2,565 pounds, up from 2,037 last year when a late spring frost held the crop back. Every bin was picked by hand by friends, neighbors, and family. We could not have done this without you — and we mean that literally.

The founding club: every day you picked reserved a bottle of the first-ever vintage in your name, and made you a founding wine club member — a group that now exists, is closed forever, and will be poured for first. The wine is fermenting as you read this; watch your inbox.

The crew: to everyone who showed up at 6:30 AM, hauled bins, wrangled kids, watched the crush run, and came back for more — thank you. Special commendations to Hazel, our head of Gopher Patrol, and to Linus, who supervised from inside a harvest bin and never once helped carry it.

The 2026 harvest · final count

14,993 lbs

seven and a half tons, picked by hand, weighed bin by bin

Ten varieties, one first vintage. Every bar on this chart was picked by hand by people who showed up for a farm they'd never met. Thank you — see you at the first pour.

The season in pictures

Harvest 2026, as it happened

A picker with a red wagon in the dim vineyard rows under glowing sunrise clouds
6:30 AM, Grüner Sunday. The sky pays you back for the alarm.
A picker working a vine row with a red crate
Weekend two, first light in the Pinot Noir.
A dog trotting down a vine row lined with roses while a picker works
Quality control makes the rounds.
A hand holding a perfect dark grape cluster
Pinot Noir, ready.
A gloved hand holding a golden Grüner Veltliner cluster
The Grüner that surprised everyone — 300 lbs last year, 4,168 this year.
A wagon stacked with red crates of grapes beside a macro bin
The wagon train, inbound.
Two thousand pounds, meet destemmer.
Two people raking grapes from a bin into the destemmer
Crush day, all hands.
The crew hand-destemming grapes around a table of red crates
The day the first destemmer broke, everyone destemmed by hand. Nobody went home.
Kids and families gathered at the crush pad
All ages welcome. Some more supervised than others.
August 15: the very first juice of the very first harvest.
And then it starts becoming wine.
A row of white fermenters lined up outside the winery
The eggs, lined up and waiting.
Six smiling crew members in sun hats at the crush pad
The crew. Hats mandatory, smiles optional but universal.
A man in a red shirt holding a happy hound dog
Payment rendered in full.