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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Chuck was in town and stopped in for some barrel tastings. We went through all the non-bottled wines and found them all to be quite tasty… except for two. Sadly we had to sacrificed five gallons of 2006 Gardner’s Block Merlot to our homies. Interestingly, the 2007 GB Merlot seems to have also gone off. I [...] It started Saturday night with some steaks, sausages and bottles of Road31 Pinot and Arns Syrah. Overall a very good way to start things. Events lead Joe and I down the street to a wine tasting party held by the owner of a wine storage company. It was a school auction item party, but we were [...] Hydrometer reads 0 on the 2008 Zinfandel. Ready [...] AC24581 08 ZINJUICE pH 3.84 Titratable Acidity 0.555 g/100mL We will need to add acid at some point, probably Tartaric. I am researching how much and when [...] This Sunday we will be pressing the Zin/Petite. TO DO: Swell Hungarian barrel I am updating a graph of the sugar level of the Zinfandel. It is on the left sidebar and I will try to keep it up-to-date. I can only post one variable, but I am tracking temperature as well and it is a classic inverse curve relative to the Brix. We have a vigorous fermentation going [...] A day after pitching the yeast I check the temp and gravity. There is activity already, temperature was up 3ºF even though it was a cold night (46ºF outside). The weird thing is that I am getting a higher reading of 26ºB as compared to the the two other readings both coming out at 24.5ºB. I [...] After adding a total of 55 lbs of dry ice I pitched 80g of Rockpile DYW49B Yeast. I hydrated it in warm water first, but left it a little too long and the result was dramatic. At least I know they are active [...] We picked, crushed and pressed 11 lbs. of the Estate grapes all by hand. ended with a low Brix, only 21.5. I pressed it into a rose, the last one was awful, this can’t [...] |
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