I just bottled the Cellar Craft “Rosso Fortissimo” yesterday, and as usual I have one bottle that isn’t quite full. Perfect for tasting right after bottling! I poured out a glass to taste first without aeration, and was surprised to find that the wine is very cloudy. It was racked off just prior to bottling […]
Monthly archive: 02 2011
I have several wines in progress currently, besides the petite sirah and merlot that is waiting to be bottled.ย I started a very cool Super Tuscan red blend wine kit from Cellar Craft, “Rosso Fortissimo”, which is almost ready to be bottled. This wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese and comes with […]
It’s time to rack the Petite Sirah off of the egg white fining lees and see how it tastes! The wine is very clear, and there was not a lot of lees on the bottom. Tasting the fined wine side-by-side with the unfined wine, I definitely prefer fined wine. It did smooth out taste without […]
I realized I haven’t tried my ‘Embarcadero’ Dry Creek Valley Merlot yet.ย This wine is 100% merlot “B” (fermented with Pasteur red yeast) aged with french oak (heavy + medium toast, cubes in carboy) with incomplete MLF but treated with lysozyme. This wine has been in the bottle 18 months.ย I tasted it in a […]
I wanted to try some egg white fining on the 2009 Petite Sirah.ย We tasted it recently and decided it was good without any fining, but I’ve had a previous vintage with fining and really liked the results.ย So, I decided to go for it. We have a 30 gallon barrel plus one 6 gallon […]