Fwd: Gross Lees

Mis-posted to the expenses blog. Forwarding into the Winemaker Blog

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From: Troy Pearse <ttpearse@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Subject: Gross Lees
To: Riverwoods Expenses <ttpearse.riverwoods-expenses@blogger.com>

We racked the Clone-6 Cabernet and the Malbec off of the gross lees.  Both are looking good. The Clone-6 flavors were already improved from when we pressed.  We still need to rack the Syrah and Petite Sirah followed by the Cabernet and Cab Franc.

 

We cleaned out Lee's 15G French barrel with ProxyClean and did a meta/citric rinse. It will dry a couple days and we'll smell it to see if it's cleaned-up.  Then we'll rack some Cabernet into it.

 

We reviewed winery 2009 expenses.  Everything looks good except we need to check with Bob for expenses related to building wine carts.  On average we calculated each bottle of wine is $3.25.  What a bargain!