Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Clos Rougeard “Les Poyeux” 2003
I love finding a great wine that’s been under my radar. This past Friday, I went to one of my favorite wine shops (56º Degrees in Bernardsville, NJ) and tasted a Cabernet Franc from the Loire Valley. I’ve had a handful of nice Cab Francs from Chinon but, by and large, I don’t care for Cab […]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Braida Moscato d’Asti and Homemade Pizza
After working and playing outside on this wonderful fall Sunday, I decided to have a late lunch with a Moscato and watch a little TV. Watching Dan Barber, chef/owner of Blue Hill Restaurant in NYC, cook pork belly got me really hungry but I didn’t feel like cooking.
A few months ago I had made marinara […]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Petalos 2006
Descendientes de J. Palacios makes a wine from Bierzo named Petalos. I had never heard of the wine but have heard of the winery. I liked the label and it was priced right ($22) so I decided to try it (besides I needed to round out a case to get a discount). This wine is […]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
ML Under Way
All our barrels have now been inoculated for malolactic fermentation. I’m guessing that our wine will finish ML sometime in November, possibly December. After that, we’ll keep the wine aging in barrels until it’s time to bottle.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Short on Barrels
We had purchased 28 barrels thinking that we’d have 2 extras and it ends up that we are 3 barrels short (did I mention that Billo has a degree in Applied Mathematics from MIT?…).
Luckily, Chris was able to get us 3 more neutral oak barrels and 2 barrel racks from Pepper Bridge Winery.
All of our […]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Billo at Artifex
Billo went to Walla Walla this weekend to check on our wine. Our juice is almost finished with primary fermentation and we thought it a good idea for Billo to assess the quality of our wine.
We sent samples to ETS. The pH numbers were higher than we wanted but the titratable acidity was within what […]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Fermentation Kickin’
Fermentation is well on its way. Numbers from yesterday show that the Seven Hills juice in the two S Bins are at 5.6 º Brix and 3.6 º Brix, the Les Collines juice in the two fermentation tanks are at 3.4 º Brix and 1.5 º Brix, and the Les Collines juice in the 2 […]
