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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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 [...] 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 [...] A few weeks ago (when was it Chuck?) Joe, Chuck and I got together for a day of barrel cleaning, racking of the 2007 Syrah, and bottling of our 2006 Cabernets. Things didn’t go as planned. All of it could have been prevented by a little work done a few days ahead. Here is what happened [...] I topped off the Syrah the other day and pulled a little sample to try. I t seems to be a little musty tasting so I want to rack it off into the other barrel, clean out the lees (with our new barrel rinser!) and put it back into the French barrel. Chuck is already making [...] Well this took a long time to post. Our pressing day was fun, long and almost didn’t happen. The first problem was that the press was awfully small for our volumes, the second problem was that the press bleed valve would not close on the bladder press. We also believe that the pressure gauge was [...] Everything is registering 0 Brix. I hope waiting until next Sunday to press isn’t too long of an extended maceration. Here is the final [...] You can smell it from [...] The Cabernet is still winning, with Merlot second and Syrah a distant third.
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