Sunday, February 22, 2009

Bottles Clean, WA Malbec Racked

We met today and washed 13 cases of chard bottles in preperation for bottling.  We propose to filter and bottle on Tue March 3rd, mid day or in the evening. We'll set the time as we get closer. (Corks are in the winery on the West wall shelf.)
 
We racked the WA Malbec over copper again and added 20ppm Meta. We think this may be the final racking for it.
 
We topped and tasted barrels. All are coming along very well, but were down quite a ways.  We had some confusion about 1 barrel that wasn't marked but determined it was super-tuscan and that one of the 15G SS kegs was merlot.
 
We started topping the ID Cabernet with Malbec.
 
Troy