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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 [...] I think so. Can’t count on the PMR Pinot. What do [...] Looks like we will be crushing Dry Creek Zin/Petite a week from today. Phoebe and I will probably pick the “estate” grapes this week after school sometime and crush/press it into the house Rose Magnum. Last years sucked, but I will pay more attention to [...] We have decided to go with G&M Vineyards again for our half-ton of grapes this year. I just hung up with Levi and last week the Zin was at 19, the Petite a little behind. He is predicting harvest third or fourth week in September. He also suggested we either get a year-old barrel or use the existing [...] Things are roiling away, lots of CO2 and great smells. I am tracking temperature and Brix. The Cabernet continues to be the most vigorous. Click on the thumbnail to see a confusing chart. I am going to try to improve it as time permits. We should see temperatures go up correlated to sugar dropping, then sugar [...] Phoebe and I picked 7 lbs., 8 oz. of Cabernet from our single vine. I foot-stomped it and hand pressed using a colander and stainless mixing bowl yielding just shy of 2 liters of juice at 24.5ºB. I pitched a little of the extra D21/Fermaid K slurry into it to make our [...] We added dry ice to the must to cold soak it at a temperature at lease 50ºF. Here are the cooling numbers:
Merlot Cabernet G&M Syrah 10/1/07 2:00 PM 63 64 72 10/1/07 6:00 PM 38 41 55 10/2/07 1:45 PM 57 58 62 Hopefully we can keep it cool. The garage gets up [...]
(Click the Flickr link to see all the photos from the harvest and crush.) After an evening talking outside by the fire, drinking 2005 Grout Cellars Meritage, Sunday morning Joe and I got up early and hit the road. We had to make a brief stop at the rest stop on 280. It was a little weird. At 6:30 AM there must have been 30 cars there. Only two guys in the bathroom shaving, go figure. A quick stop to buy picking knives and by around 8:30 we reached the first vineyard and started picking. It was a cool, beautiful morning and the picking was great fun. We left with two bins filled with grapes. I just wanted to prove I got [...] |
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