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  1. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    retaste: Black Iris Foch Syrah 2022-23 wild blackberries, wild black cherries (pitted), dried elderberries, Sheridan Syrah (repair job), homegrown organic Marechal Foch Appearance - inky purple, slight fizz Smell - complex, cherries overpower the Syrah nose and work well with the Foch...
  2. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    Retaste: Colour: purple ink Smell: coffee, cocoa, black licorice, five spice, plums, blackberries Tannin: high but fine with skin tannins in the aftertaste. This should age for a long time. Acid: good, matches the tannin Flavour: intense, rich, balanced, needs lots of time e.g. 5+ years to...
  3. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    retaste: Appearance - deep purple red Smell - good fragrant nose - licorice, chocolate, elderberries, blueberries, black cherries, sweet oak (vanilla from medium toast American oak cubes) Tannin - perfect Acid - slightly high but perfect for a wine to age. I have 8 left. Flavour - rich...
  4. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    congratulations! Grenache may = strawberry.
  5. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    Retaste: Here are my comments: Appearance - clear yellow Smell - good intense smell especially from the honey and russets. no sulphite smell. Tannin - slightly high from the Russets and the oak plus honey which should help it age Acid - good from the Russets and the citric acid I added to...
  6. Hazelemere

    Free SO2 by Aeration / Oxidation

    only the oxygen that reacts with SO2. Not all of the available oxygen necessarily reacts. Nitrogen eliminates the oxygen reactions.
  7. Hazelemere

    Free SO2 by Aeration / Oxidation

    SO2 + H2O = H2SO3 2H2SO3 + O2 = 2H2SO4 2SO2 + 2H2O + O2 = 2H2SO4
  8. Hazelemere

    Free SO2 by Aeration / Oxidation

    no oxygen. Won't work. If you want compressed gas use nitrogen
  9. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    a retaste: Apple Edelzwicker 2021-2022 This is homegrown organic apple juice from ground and pressed apples (russet, king, cox) mixed with homegrown organic grape skins and 1st run juice sediment with pectic enzyme and re-pressed (includes Siegerrebe, Ortega, Reichensteiner and Madeleine...
  10. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    Apple Edelzwicker 2021-2022 This is homegrown organic apple juice from ground and pressed apples (russet, king, cox) mixed with homegrown organic grape skins and 1st run juice sediment with pectic enzyme and re-pressed (includes Siegerrebe, Ortega, Reichensteiner and Madeleine Angevine). Here...
  11. Hazelemere

    Lime sulfer ok during growing season?

    use it in the winter/early spring before bud break and on fruit trees and berry plants e.g. raspberries with dormant oil (kill insect eggs). Lime is hard on the leaves in the summer. I use kumulus S (powdered sulphur) with potassium bicarbonate to control powder mildew after bud break every 2...
  12. Hazelemere

    What R you doing today?

    sprayed my two sweet cherry trees with bacillus thuringiensis to kill white maggots that can ruin the fruit. Their eggs are laid in the cherry blossoms by moths and can be killed when they hatch.
  13. Hazelemere

    What R you doing today?

    good luck. You obviously love your vines and it shows.
  14. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    Black Iris Foch Syrah 2023 Appearance - clear, inky purple, very slightly petillant (no idea why but it dies down in the glass) Smell - really good smell from the blackberries, wild cherries and dried elderberries blended into homegrown Foch fermented on 71B plus natural malolactic with a...
  15. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    retaste: This is my homegrown 2022 Carol's Muscat from Siegerrebe and Madeleine Angevine. Carol is my wife and the wine is a blend of Siegerrebe and Madeleine Angevine. Siegerrebe was un-chaptalized at SG 1.084 and Madeleine Angevine was chaptalized with cane sugar from SG 1.074 to SG 1.085...
  16. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    haha! Reminds me of Steve Martin being heckled in the audience when he said "I too can remember when I had my first beer"
  17. Hazelemere

    Zinfandel grapes -> wine! A new member's introduction via a 75L of red deliciousness.

    this is a helpful post to winemakers. Well done!
  18. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    retaste: Here are my comments: Appearance - clear yellow, slightly petillant Smell - good, slightly yeasty, complex Champagne Cyser nose, interesting honey champagne smell Tannin - good from the ground and pressed Russet apples (russets rock!) Acid - good Flavour - This would kill IMHO...
  19. Hazelemere

    What's in your glass tonight?

    I'm tasting a blend of homegrown Regent Black Iris 2023 which is Regent grapes hand destemmed and uncrushed, wild black cherries, wild blackberries and dried elderberries from a bottle. Here are my comments on this wine: Appearance - clear, deep purple Smell - really interesting, wild...
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