Ready for final bottling

We will bottle the Bosique and Encore on Thursday, after the blending trials.  Blending trials are set to start at 5-5:30pm. Bring a snack to share.

 

We will wash bottles Wednesday at noon.  We have about 84 gallons of wine, which is 420 bottles total.  I anticipate around 49-50 gallons of Boisique (250 bottles, ~21 cases of shouldered bottles). The remaining 170 bottles will be Encore (or Encore and Cousins), which can be non-shouldered or shouldered.  Cleaning 21 cases of Shouldered and 14 cases of Non-Shouldered should do us.

 

Here is a breakdown of wine we have left.

 

37G       Merlot

21.5G    Malbec

15G       Cousins (50/50)

8G         Syrah

2G         Cab Franc

 

For Boisique we'll try 3 blends to start:

80% Merlot, 20% Malbec

75% Merlot, 25% Malbec

71% Merlot, 25% Malbec, 4% Cab Franc

 

For the left-over wine we will try:

 

1. Syrah, Petite Syrah, Malbec  (2 cousins and an in-law?)

2. Syrah, Petite Syrah (2 cousins)

3. Syrah, Malbec (standard encore)