Chuck and I had bottle 2190 or 2400 of Ethan Grenache the other night. We like that one.
2004 Ethan
Santa Ynez Valley
Grenache
Vogelzano Vineyard
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We tested the sugar levels with a hydrometer today from samples pulled last night. Other Merlot: 1ºB These numbers confirm our speculations from tasting and observations of the caps. The wines taste great, even better after a morning exposed to air. Good tannic structure on the cabs and nice fresh fruit in the Merlot. [...] …graduated cylinder. Don’t drop your hydropmeter into a glass tube when there is no liquid in it. Looks like the 2006 merlot and cabs are slowing down a bit. The cap is not as firm. I took temperature readings and they ranged from 78-81ºF. The warmer bins were marginally closer to the heater. I think I migrated all the posts from the old blog here now. Please sign up as a member and post any comments you might have. Strong caps still present after a week. I put a space heater in the garage to keep things warm at night, about 70º F. First, I am not sure if testing the TA of juice is worth doing. Last year I got too-low numbers and the wine turned out to have an appropriate TA. So here is what I got: Other Merlot Other Cabernet PMR Cabernet Estate Cabernet* Chuck, Lewie and I Crushed approx. 200 lbs each of: “Gardner’s Block” Merlot, “Gardner’s Block” Cabernet, and Peter Ray Cabernet. We used a motorized, auger driven crusher/destemmer from Fermentation Frenzy. It was fast, much faster than us. Note: Don’t rinse out the hopper when you are standing in front of the chute. After everything was clean I [...] Added approx. 50 ppm SO2 to each bin in the form of two envelopes of granular effervescent potassium metabisulfite. Man I love that stuff, no mixing, no smell. Nice. What a long day. Too much wine last night at the 49ers Academy Party on top of a linger chest cold and an early wake up to go rent the truck. Ugh. 8:30 Picked up the pick up from Hengehold |
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