Ray and Lee picked up 600lbs of Merlot and 600lbs from Dennis at Wood River Vineyard today. Fruit was great! Clean, and tasty berries. Merlot had especially heavy skins. Just love that juice. We crushed/destemmed and tried to remove as much stems as possible, then added about 4tsp meta (a little less this year). It is resting for 48h and then will be inoculated with a yeast starter. We also will add some nutrient this year to try and get a better fermentation. Lee will innoculate on Sunday.
Merlot (Dennis reported 25.6 brix, 3.45ph and 0.56 TA)
26.75 Brix
3.6 PH
Malbec
25.5 Brix
3.5 PH
Riverrock Syrah is sitting at 7 brix and we transferred it into the 60G plastic drum to finish fermenting so we could use the bin. (Thank You Dennis! Those bins come in handy! :) We got a report from Dana at RiverRock to not adjust acids, based on feedback from Caleb. We think this is good advise. Thanks Dana and Caleb for your help. :) I put some ProxyClean in my 15G Hungarian barrel to get it cleaned up. Will ask Mike to empty and do a meta/citric rinse on Sat. so it will be ready to recieve the Syrah. Expect that will hapen Monday or so.
Chard has calmed down in the barrel/carboy. Topped all up to full.
Tried a bottle our recently bottled syrah while we worked. It is drinking well already. An impressive effort that we are all proud of. Hope this years Syrah turns out as well.
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