The rewards and frustrations of home winemaking

Daily archive: 13 10 2009

Pumping Merlot and Picking up the Petite Sirah

Today we pick up the Petite Sirah grapes from Chris van Alyea at his new digs up in San Marcos.ย  Unfortunately, the grapes arrived later than expected, although it’s not too bad, Paul and I had a lot to do before we head up to get them.ย  We spent about 4 hours racking the merlot […]