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Racked 2009 Syrah

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 [...]

Wine Impressions — Mountain Grapes, Part I: Howell Mountain

(Originally published in the online literary magazine, CappyG)

Mountains define a valley. I had been to Napa valley many times; I even proposed marriage there; but I never ventured far from the valley floor. And eventually, for me, the valley had become an unpleasant, crowded, tourist Mecca: gridlock traffic, expensive tasting fees, and buses—more cheese than wine. So for years I had been venturing further up into Sonoma and Mendocino, searching for that old wine-country feel.

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2009 Syrah Fermentation Chart

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Crushing Syrah 10/4/09

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 [...]

Cleared out malware

I think I found the malicious code and removed it from two [...]

2009 Syrah?

I think so. Can’t count on the PMR Pinot. What do [...]

Damn Hackers

Sorry for the malware warning, if you see this then it has been taken [...]

2008 Zinfandel Lab Results

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

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 [...]

Found Treasure

Chuck was in town and stopped in for some barrel tastings. We went through all the non-bottled wines and found them all to be quite tasty… except for two. Sadly we had to sacrificed five gallons of 2006 Gardner’s Block Merlot to our homies. Interestingly, the 2007 GB Merlot seems to have also gone off. I [...]