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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! I think so. Can’t count on the PMR Pinot. What do y’all think? 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 this one. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 first Rose! 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 [...]
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