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2010 Crush – Syrah

gardner — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:56:49 +0000

Easiest crush yet.

Syrah

ºB: 25.5 pH: 3.88 ºF: 56

Juice tastes great. Wonderful kid and [...]

Racked 2009 Syrah

gardner — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:01:08 +0000

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 [...]

2009 Syrah Fermentation Chart [DRY!]

gardner — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:19:09 +0000

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Crushing Syrah 10/4/09

gardner — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:30:19 +0000

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 [...]

2008 Zinfandel Lab Results

gardner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:55:01 +0000

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 [...]

Bottling 2007 Syrah on 12/20/2008

gardner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:48:45 +0000

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 [...]

2008 Pressing Day

gardner — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:36:36 +0000

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 [...]

0 ºB

gardner — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:57:26 +0000

Hydrometer reads 0 on the 2008 Zinfandel. Ready [...]

2008 Zinfandel Juice Lab Results

gardner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:54:49 +0000

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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 [...]

Pressing Sunday, 9/28/2008

gardner — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:25:44 +0000

This Sunday we will be pressing the Zin/Petite. TO DO:

Swell Hungarian barrel Rack Syrah into Hungarian barrel Clean kegs Clean [...]