This wine has really taken its time to come together, but it is definitely improving now more and more.ย I did decant, but tasted just after decanting.ย Not a lot of solids thrown out or left in the bottle.ย Kit taste and aroma is gone, with no foam at all. Velvety aromas of chocolate, brambles, […]
Monthly archive: 04 2010
This wine is now approaching 2 years, it’s hard to believe it made it that long, it’s so good! After time the honey/flowery notes have come forward, although there is still a good spicy bite in the finish too.ย Still a great wine, it will be hard to let this one go.ย I hope this […]
Although I *said* I would give the syrah a few more weeks to finish MLF, it really doesn’t seem realistic that it would get going if malic acid levels have not dropped at all after 4 weeks.ย I might actually be risking something bad happening in the wine in the meantime.ย I posted this problem […]
It’s been about 4 weeks since I added fresh malolactic bacteria to the syrah to try to get MLF going again.ย 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.ย I […]
I checked in on the wines in the shower to make sure the airlocks weren’t contaminated or dried out, and saw another white layer on our 6-gallon carboy of merlot.ย This was the first time I saw this white layer in this container, I found it previously on a smaller bottle of this merlot as […]