I have a few wines that are due for bottling, but I was waiting until I opened my shop because I needed corks, and it seemed to make sense that I should buy them from myself. So today I’m finally bottling my Amador county primitivo. I’ll bottle most of it as 100% varietal, but I’m […]
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The barrels needed a new home, so we decided it was a good time to rack out the wine and clean out the barrels. Both the merlot and petite sirah need more oak, so we’re going to leave them in the barrels for another year with some extra oak cubes added in. We pumped the […]
My in-laws are visiting from Germany, and that seemed like a good reason to check the progress of all of the vintage 2009 wines in the shower. I pulled 100 mL samples from various carboys for a taste. We started with the Fallbrook syrah. This wine already has great aromas with big fruit and good […]
It’s been about 4 weeks since I added fresh malolactic bacteria to the syrah to try to get MLF going again. I’ve been stirring it once or twice a week and keeping a heat pad on it overnight and in the cool parts of the daytime to keep the temperature between 70 – 80?F. I […]
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 ….