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Montevina Zinfandel 2002. Finally, a zinfandel I LIKE. Very nice.
2012 goals: Fastest race times since 2006.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
A little anniversary celebration. Tried something new. This was a solid champagne.
A Saucy Wench
So our favorite "date night" red has been sold out for awhile (Sinister Hand). When I had the wine and lack-of-food dinner last month dh and I found a new favorite . We have slightly different tastes in wine so finding that wine that we both really like is always good.
Bonus, Sinister Hand was $28 a bottle and this one is only $17 and really very nice. Havent tried it with as much food as I would have liked to but it seemed to go well with what little food we were served. (I tried a spanish Granache that was divine on its own but didnt go with steak. didnt go with red sauce. Just didnt go with food at all)
Last week I went to a Penner-Ash tasting and their Pinot Noir was very good and I do not like Pinot Noir. But the kind they brought was $45/bottle which is a bit out of my range. But the first time I really GOT the Pinot good with chocolate experience. Their Syrah was good as well. The Pinot-Syrah blend was horrendous. I'm not a blend snob, Sinister Hand was a divine blend. But their Rubeo was just enhancing the worst parts of both pinot and syrah.
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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
We've Got Big Hills
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
One case of wine is 9 liters = 2.37 gallons. Typically, it takes about 20 lbs of grapes to get one gallon of fermentable juice. Your yields sound pretty standard.
Yes, the kicker is that it is white wine. With red wine, you would throw all of the grapes and roughly 20% of the stems into the fermentor. WIth a little bit of pectic enzyme, you would have a very efficient yield.
With white whine, you crush and press the grapes and only ferment the juice. So if your crush/press is not 100% efficient you get much less yield. Even if it is you get less yield. When you take reds and crush/ferment them, after a week you have absolutely nothing but the skins left because the yeast break down all the pectin and release the fluid. With whites, you lose more. I am not used to this as this is my first batch of real wine with my own grapes. My press is simply an antique 1-2 gallon press my grandmother picked up at an antique store for me. With fruit whine, for example, a month ago, I throw 55lbs of red raspberries in the press, juice it up, add pectic enzyme, and a week later I have 5+ gallons of premature wine.
None of the vines were mature this year. Next year, these same vines will produce at LEAST 2X as much fruit and I have the same number of 2nd year vines of this variety coming into production next year.
OK plum wine. Vintage. ( or is it arborage??? ) 2010. It will never be good. Too tart. I have made good plum wine before, and this is not it.
Sounds like they were not ripe. If you want to taste tart wine try gooseberry or red currant, nothing compares to the acid level there.
Non ducor, duco.
. It will never be good.
Oh come on! Maybe it would be good with some Sprite and a cherry!
I'm gonna say, monkey wine.....good.
the unrunner
i had a really good tempranillo rose the other day, but i cannot remember the name of it -- starts with a "P". it was like $7 a bottle, but it was good!
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Havent had one of these in awhile errrr I mean the wine. Wine is ok. Labels are excellent reading
2008 Climax Red Table Wine American Red Wine Big, juicy with a strong spicy kick at the end....just the way a Climax should always be. Back Label: Soft at first, expect a rock solid finish. A firm body with plenty of girth stretches the palate for a full mouth feel. Engorge with succulent cherry flavors and undertones of dark berry flesh, this blend is ready to release no with flavors that shoot out at the finish. Our Climax will leave you screaming for more.
Subtle
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