It is finally time to bottle the oak trials today!  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.  The chardonnays all cleared out really nicely, which is great so I can bottle directly from the individual jugs — otherwise I’m going to spend an extra hour just racking everything off.

Thanks to the great bottling pump I have, I bottled 53 bottles of 2009 “Cabrillo Bridge” Petite Sirah and 60 bottles of Chardonnay oak trials in just 3 hours.  Too bad the bottling pump doesn’t also clean up everything …

I tasted a little of the unoaked Chardonnay to see what it’s like, I haven’t had this particular Winexpert Chardonnay kit yet.  I really, really liked it, it has lots of apple and a nice fresh, round mouthfeel.  I’m looking forward to tasting my own oak trials side-by-side!  Thanks for the inspiration, Tim Vandergrift!!!