I'm delinquent on updating the blog, so here it goes.
We finished racking wine off the fine lees over Memorial Day weekend and all the wines are in the cooler. We ended up blending some syrah/petite-sirah into a barrel (50/50) as a base for the cousin's blend. We added 15-20ppm of meta to the wine after racking and stirred it in. The platypus topping wine got an extra pinch of meta. We topped 2 weeks later, and all wines are cool and sound. We need to top again by the end of June.
We had a guest at the winery while we racked: Mike from Syringa. It was nice to chat with him. He tasted several wines and was particularly impressed with the 09 Cabernets and the Petite Sirah Port (aren't we all!).
On Memorial Day we had Riverwoods BBQ with a vertical tasting of Boisique 2004-2008 (minus the extra popular, award winning 2006). The wines are holding up very well. 2004 has aged well and was the favorite. The bottle had loads of sediment, but tasted great--it could have gone several more years. The 2007 was noticeably more tannic. The 05 had more oak and the 08 had the most body (15% alcohol, baby!). Now if we could just figure out how to hold onto more bottles of wine until they were 5 years old! ;)
We sulfured Troy's empty 26G American barrel. We'll have to check on it mid-summer to make sure it doesn't dry out.
