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By Roger Piantadosi Rappahannock News Staff Writer
At 6 a.m on a Saturday along U.3. 211 in central Rappahannock County, there are few passing traffic sounds. This means you can clearly hear roosters in the distance.
The sky is just starting to lighten to a pale yellow-blue over the Amissville Volunteer Fire Hall across the highway as a lone driver turns into the Gray Ghost Vineyard driveway and follows it around back to the “crush pad,” the concrete dock where grapes are crushed before the juice is pumped into the big tanks inside.
Here at the pad, however, no one can hear roosters - because there’s a full-blown party in progress.
Under the bright pad
teers in caps, jeans and longsleeved layers, holding coffee cups, donuts, muffins and apples, are chatting loudly, smiling, telling stories, buttering toast and pouring orange juice.
Welcome to the Gray Ghost volunteer harvest program.
Three times a year for the last 12 years, Gray Ghost’s owners AJ and Cheryl Kellert, along with their daughter lights, more
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