We racked the cab out of the lovely grey trash cans into an even lovelier new American oak barrel with medium toast.  Dave and I ended up with a full 30 gallon barrel plus a 6 gallon carboy and another 2 gallon bottle full of fine lees.  I checked the malic acid, and it’s down to 150 mg/L, progressing nicely!  Racking really got the beasties going, it started bubbling a lot.

We gave it a taste, and it’s going to be nice!  Very fruit-forward, softer than the big bad merlot.  We should get some nice blends out of these!