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2006 PMR Cabernet
pH 3.79
Titratable Acidity 0.695 g/100mL Free SO2 0
Total SO2 0
Glucose + Fructose 163 mg/100mL Malic Acid 10 mg/100mL Volatile Acidity 0.106 g/100mL
2006 “Gardner’s Block” Cabernet
pH 3.84
Titratable Acidity 0.624 g/100mL Free SO2 0
Total SO2
We added dry ice to the must to cold soak it at a temperature at lease 50ºF. Here are the cooling numbers:
Merlot Cabernet G&M Syrah 10/1/07 2:00 PM 63 64 72 10/1/07 6:00 PM 38 41 55 10/2/07 1:45 PM 57 58 62 Hopefully we can keep it cool. The garage gets up [...]
(Click the Flickr link to see all the photos from the harvest and crush.) After an evening talking outside by the fire, drinking 2005 Grout Cellars Meritage, Sunday morning Joe and I got up early and hit the road. We had to make a brief stop at the rest stop on 280. It was a little weird. At 6:30 AM there must have been 30 cars there. Only two guys in the bathroom shaving, go figure. A quick stop to buy picking knives and by around 8:30 we reached the first vineyard and started picking. It was a cool, beautiful morning and the picking was great fun. We left with two bins filled with grapes. I re-calibrated the pH meter and did my best with the titratable acid test. I might send the G&M Syrah in to Vinquiry to double check the pH. The Syrah is so much darker than the other two. - Cabernet, Syrah, Merlot “Gardner’s Block” Merlot “Gardner’s Block” Cabernet Microorganisms have wrecked about four gallons of the “Gardner’s Block” Cabernet. It’s a sad day. I opened the keg to take a sample and saw a rainbow-colored slick on the top. The smell confirmed my fears. I tasted it from the top and the bottom; the infection is all the way through. Oh well, we must [...] I don’t have a spectrometer, but I am surprised how sweet the cabernet grapes are tasting already. I guess I will know when they are ripe when the birds eat [...] The grapes started to ripen on my one vine [...] I went up to MR Vineyards on Mt. Eden today with Linus and his family. We pulled a few barrel samples of their own wine (personal consumption). As with my own 2006 Cabernet, theirs is huge and shows great potential for being a wonderfully powerful and complex wine. The 2005 Cabernet showed nice structure, but a [...] Chuck’s parents were in town so we pulled a barrel samples of the 2006 Other Vineyard Merlot and Cabernet and PMR Cabernet. The first two were well balanced and close to accessible, they both have a the subtle raison flavor found in the 2005 Merlot that is overpowering to some, loved by others. The PMR Cabernet was [...] Last night I opened a bottle of Grout Cellars 2003 Cabernet from the PMR Vineyards. This was a wine made in a panic. I had not made wine since working for Cronin Vineyards around 1990. There had been one batch I tried in 1991 in the parking structure of Byron’s and my [...] |
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