I got some bad news today. I had 100 mls of my wine analyzed and received my finished Wine Panel Results today. Everything seemed OK except for my Fructose concentrations that were off the map. Normally the glucose to fructose ratio should be from .74 to 1.05. Mine was .09 which is about ten times…
I was actually thankful that it was blowing like a hurricane at San Luis Reservoir or I wouldn’t have had the day to catch up with the winemaking. I did the second racking of the the 20 gallons of Zin today and tasted it. It coming along nicely! The wine is clear and it tastes…
I was a bit worried at pruning time that these sticks had seen better days, but there are signs of life in the Zins. The table grapes are already rapidly growing. There was very little water this spring but I think that wont mean much. The Roses around the grapes are doing well in the…
After reading and researching, I’ve decided I would prune our grapes in the Double Guyot and Cordon Pruning system. The system is essentially a spur trained version of the Guyot system that involves using single or bilateral cordons instead of canes. In double Guyot, two spurs and two canes are retained.The choice between single and double Guyot is decided…
After talking to Eric at Fermentation Solutions in Campbell, we realized that we kind of “lost it” with the sugar addition–his words. He told us to call him next time we are about to make a dumb mistake. I took my new Refractometer over to the vinyard and started testing some grapes and a random…
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Its hard to believe it been three years since we planted those bear root vines. Today we harvested our grapes to make our first batch of wine. We ended up with about 100 lbs of grapes, De-stemmed them by hand and we now have about 12 gallons of MUST…