2010 Boisique Bottled

We bottled 52G of Boisique.  We tweaked the blend slightly from the tasting. Final blend ended up being:

 

50% WA Merlot

35% ID Merlot

15% Malbec

 

We tried blends using both barrels of Merlot and went with Troy's older American oak barrel. The WA Merlot that had been in Ray's new barrel had an off taste in the finish. We will use that merlot in our Bordeaux blend. 

 

Magnafique tasting trials are set for the evening of Wed Oct 5th. Starting blend for the 2010 Magnafique Bordeaux Blend will be as follows. We expect about 60G of Bordeaux blend, which is 300 bottles. Everyone needs 5 cases of clean shouldered bottles.

 

Magnafique Trial Blends

 

Blend 1

50% WA Merlot

40% WA Cab

10% Malbec

 

Blend 2

60% WA Merlot

35% WA Cab

5% Malbec

 

We want to bottle the Williamson cab as straight cab, unless we find we need it in the Bordeaux Blend. That is 75 shouldered bottles.

 

We discovered that we have 30G of WA Syrah to bottle, and not 30G of Idaho Syrah. That is 150 bottles of non-shouldered bottles.

 

We will bottle the leftover gallons of cab and malbec as our 2010 encore, which will be about 50/50 blend of WA Cab and Malbec (est 20-25G or 125 bottles).