Easiest crush yet.
Syrah
ºB: 25.5
pH: 3.88
ºF: 56
Juice tastes great. Wonderful kid and [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 |
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