I entered two wines into the San Diego County Fair Homemade wine competition: ‘Bahia Belle’ Bordeaux Blend, a 50/50 blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot made from fresh grapes, and ‘Sail Bay Sundown’ RJ Spagnols Argentinian Trio Limited Release white blend. One of my fellow winemakers also entered the same cabernet sauvignon and merlot as [...]
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Our May SDAWS meeting was held at Milagro Farm today. Jim Hart hosted us and gave us a tour of the vineyards and told us about his recent wine releases. He is winemaker for Milagro Farm Vineyard & Winery and also at Hart Winery in Temecula. Milagro Farm Vineyard & Winery is in the Ramona [...]
After picking on one of my fellow winemakers endlessly about drinking his wine too early, I’m opening a “Cabernet Nouveau” for Thanksgiving. It is too early to be opening it, but my husband’s parents are here, so it seemed to call for a very special wine. I opened the wine and decanted it about 2 [...]
Although this blend is still very young — only about 2 months in the bottle! — I really wanted to try it out. Decanted very briefly. Very sharp, acidic nose. Hint of raspberry and blackberry with spice. Very clear, garnet-purple in color. Very vegetal flavors of green pepper, raspberry, plum, and oak. After about an [...]
My goal was to fill all of these bottles today. It turned out I filled over half, but decided to wait to fill the rest next weekend. Why do today what you can do a week from now, eh? I did at least put together all of the blends. ‘Fiesta Islad Cab’ will be mainly [...]
I had some friends over last night to taste the cabernet sauvignon and 3 merlots made from fresh grapes. We first by tasted each individually, starting with the cab and then the barrel merlot, merlot A, and merlot B. It was very interesting how much all of the wines have changed even since my last [...]
We’ve been trying to get organized to bottle this wine for a while now, and we finally set a day and got it done. I brought my portion of the wine home in carboys and a few miscellaneous bottles. Dave and Josh wanted theirs bottled, so that’s what we did. Dave did a few blending [...]
The SG on the Yakima Synergy is at 0.994, although it’s still bubbling away in there. After racking, it’s not very pretty! But, it’s early in the game, there’s still plenty of stirring ahead before it’s expected to clear. In the meantime, Dave bought a cabernet sauvignon kit last year, at the same time that [...]
I stopped by the office to check out the barrel wines to make sure they’re not over-oaked. They both taste great, and we don’t think they’re too oaky yet. Let a sleeping cab lie ….
Just checked the malic acid levels in the cab, and it’s at the bottom end of the strip test, reading ~50 mg/L. So, we know the strip tests work, the MLF in the merlot just didn’t.