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zinfandel world headquarters--Making and Drinking WineCategory: BlogsHome: www.bloglines.com/blog/zinguy Last post: 6 weeks ago Subscribers: 1
Wine-centric journal of someone who drinks a lot, tastes more, spits always, sometimes misses, hates to pay over $25 a bottle, fantasizes about opening a wine bar where people hang out like it's actually a bar, planted a micro-vineyard in his micro-backyard, and is learning to make wine in preparation for the day those vines actually provide vinifiable fruit.
Lees or Buy?
After extended maceration we got 15 gallons of syrah yesterday. With a bit of the solids settled out, the wine is already showing strong but supple tannins, muted fruit, and ...
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Estate Press
I got under 2 gallons of estate zin juice but it looks, smells and tastes like reasonable stuff. We'll see. It included a fair amount of iffy clusters so I'll ...
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Mass Seration
...is not lots of nubby little knife edges. I'm just sayin'.Wrapped the syrah up tight yesterday. The cap has not quite sunk so I should get plenty of CO2 sparging ...
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Two Stone, One Vineyard
Yes, I got all of 28 lbs of fruit from my own vineyard today. By volume, I got three times as much, but most of the clusters were faux berries, ...
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My Syrah Weighs More Than Me (barely)
Picked 232 lbs of Kemp syrah today, and yes, that beats me by a bit, although at 16 stone not by much.Alson's readings had the fruit at 28 and pH ...
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Crushing Blows
...and I mean that.Despite, what is by any standard I'm aware of, copious watering, the zin on the vines is wasting away well before sugars or ripeness are really developing. ...
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Zin is In
Racked out the syrah from the french oak barrel, and it's going to be a nice sprightly wine. Picking up some of that smoky, meaty underpinning and hanging on to ...
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Dead Drop
We've been doing the vines quite differently this year. My darling wife took over the irrigation regimen, which means they have been watered slavishly since late April. I can't say ...
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Petite Octopus Ink
Last Sunday the 16th Cassie and I racked the Vyborny petite and put some in American oak. Highly tannic, incredibly dense and dark, and nice pure fruit notes. Can't wait ...
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Wearing of the Green
It's a St. Patty's Day tradition, it seems. Back from Austin and the first buds are pushing. Amazingly consistent for 4 years running now.
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