Due to sloth and some personal issues over the last few months I didn’t get around to racking the Syrah until two days ago. It was keeping me awake at nights, so I sucked it up and did it. It went well with only a little spillage and ended up with a barrel plus a half [...]
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(Originally published in the online literary magazine, CappyG) Mountains define a valley. I had been to Napa valley many times; I even proposed marriage there; but I never ventured far from the valley floor. And eventually, for me, the valley had become an unpleasant, crowded, tourist Mecca: gridlock traffic, expensive tasting fees, and buses—more cheese than wine. So for years I had been venturing further up into Sonoma and Mendocino, searching for that old wine-country feel. Continue reading Wine Impressions — Mountain Grapes, Part I: Howell Mountain We will be crushing Syrah this Sunday, October 4. Hopefully around noon or 1:00. I will tweet/post from the road Sunday with a better time estimate. Come on by for wine and wet fun. Kids get to [...] I think I found the malicious code and removed it from two [...] I think so. Can’t count on the PMR Pinot. What do [...] Sorry for the malware warning, if you see this then it has been taken [...] Here are the results of the latest lab test for the 2008 Zinfandel: 2007 Zin Post ML Malic Acid 83 mg/100mL pH 4.16 Titratable Acidity 0.605 g/100mL Free SO2 None detected Total SO2 3 mg/L I fear ML is stuck as it needs to get down to 15-30 mg/100ml. I am going to try adding some fresh cultures. Also the pH is too [...] Just in time to give as Christmas gifts. We will be bottling, barcoding and labeling about 25 cases. I have the corks, the bottles and the filler reserved. The argon is full and the wine is ready to go after a final lab analysis. I am going to send out an invite for anyone wanting to [...] In preparation for our biggest bottling yet (around 12/22/08) I instituted a barcode inventory system with Cellar Tracker Now all we need to do is get Chuck to tell me how many bottles are in [...] |
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