Wise Acres Winery

Let the must macerate overnight at about 62ºF.

Innoculated with 12g of [...]

I picked up Lewie and drove to PMR. Just before going up the dirt road, I told Lewie—who had time constraints—that this should be fast, the only thing that could go wrong would be if Peter gave all my grapes to Soquel Winery by accident.We drove up to the house/winery where the crush party was in [...]

I forgot to mention that I racked the cold juice last night, pretty course racking, but it got some of the big, sludgy solids out. The racking was so much easier using the coke cans instead of carboys. No siphoning, little contact with air. I need to get [...]

Always clean up spilled grape juice, even if there is, “just [...]

Today I did my lab work:

- Specific Gravity = 23º Brix @ 68º F
- pH = 3.43
- TA = .72%

I pulled the wine our of the fridge to let it warm a little before pitching yeast. i hope to do that [...]

The 2004 vintage began yesterday when I bought 12 gallons of Chardonnay juice from the PMR Vineyards—about 5 boxes or 165 lbs. I helped a little in the picking. Peter, Nigel, Barky and I crushed and pressed it. I left—with my juice—after the first pressing.

Peter added 20ppm SO2

Barkey’s sugar test during pressing resulted in about 22.5

I [...]