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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 foot stomp! 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Hydrometer reads 0 on the 2008 Zinfandel. Ready for pressing. 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 to add. 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 [...] 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. [...] |
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