Today I took a group of people in my Hands-on Winemaking class at Curds and Wine up to Fallbrook for a preharvest Vineyard Visit. We picked a perfect day (read as sarcasm), as a heat wave recently hit and it was sweltering. But, it’s always a lovely, if not hot, day at the vineyard. Mike […]
Monthly archive: 08 2011
I pulled out another bottle of my ‘La Jolla Caves’ Winexpert Crushendo “Montagnac Vieux Chateau d’Oc” red rhone blend to see if it is doing anything useful in the cellar. So far, this is one wine kit that has disappointed me all along, and I just don’t think this wine is going to come around. […]
Got an email from Mike Hoffman yesterday.ย He took several random samples from his upper vineyard “Cima Sur” and the lower vineyard “Este”.ย As usual, the upper vineyard has a slightly higher brix reading average of 19 brix, and the lower vineyard is currently at average 17.6 brix.ย We are shooting for around 23-24 brix […]
It is finally time to bottle the oak trials today!ย I am also bottling the 2009 Petite Sirah that I did egg white fining on, so I can compare it to the unfined wine side-by-side.ย The chardonnays all cleared out really nicely, which is great so I can bottle directly from the individual jugs — […]