We racked the Merlot, Malbec and WA Cab tonight. We started to rack the Porto but it didn't have much fine lees because we've racked and stirred it extra times so we decided to leave it alone.
All the wines were sound with no sign of rotten egg smell. The Merlot is a different source this year and is much more tannic with less fruit. The Malbec is dark, smooth and had lots of pepper, and the WA Clone 6 Cab is a nice, elegant cab flavor.
We added 15ppm of Meta as we racked plus an extra pinch in the platypus topping containers.
We have 1 more racking to do (Planned for Memorial Day) for the ID Cab, Syrah and Petite Syrah, combining ID cab from carboys and a 15G barrel into Ray's 30G barrel and combining some syrah and petite sirah into a 15G barrel. Then everything can go into the cooler.
We enjoyed a 2005 Boisique while we racked. The flavors were very good--it was holding up well after 5 years. The wine was a bit cloudy--we have certainly improved that aspect of the wine.
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