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Cellar Craft Lodi Old Vine Zin
I finished bottling the “Bahia Belle” blend and Merlot B (“Embarcadero” merlot) today. Then I finally started another “easy drinker” red kit that I’ve been excited about, a Cellar Craft Lodi Old...
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Is That Supposed to Look Like That?
I was racking off my Cellar Craft 5-week Old Vines Zinfandel kit today and noticed this yucky-looking white residue at the top of the wine, sticking to the side of the carboy as it was racked off....
View ArticleZinfandel Grapes for the Home Winery
Ray Schnorr (he let me use his basket press last year) is picking up zinfandel grapes from Amador county this year, and asked if I was interested in getting some as well. I wanted to make some zin...
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Starting Syrah Fermentation and Bottling Zin
bin o' zin Time to get the syrah started. I met Dave at the office, and he set up the “server room winery” with plastic sheeting while I revved up the yeast. I heated up some water and dissolved in...
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Visit to Live Oak and Sober Wife Vineyards
It’s time to start thinking about harvest season again, so my hubby and I headed up to Fallbrook to visit Live Oak Vineyard and Sober Wife Vineyard, where we’ll be harvesting this year. We started up...
View ArticleBad News for Sober Wife’s Primitivo!
The heat wave is continuing, and I got an email today that the Primitivo at Sober Wife Vineyard is almost all raisined — there is no way it will last for our planned August 26th harvest. As it is, they...
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Syrah Harvest 2012
It’s that time again — harvest day! We had a recent heat wave in San Diego that pushed up our syrah harvest date from previous years. Luckily the heat wave broke for harvest day, though it was still...
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