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I'm asking him if he used any fining agents. Thanks.

Hmmmm. I guess it could be, but I noticed it on the 2nd round of pours. If residue on the glass, I would have thought it wouldn't be there on the 2nd round of pours.

Opened a friend's wine and my wife and I noticed this soap-like oil slick on the surface of the wine once poured. It was a Cab Franc from a few years ago. A few swirls and it's gone but I just wanted to get the consensus thoughts on this. The wine smelled and tasted great, but it's a little...

I believe we got it from Lodi Wine Labs....and we had to get the whole brick.

I love projects like this where you can compare and contrast one changed variable. I agree, the Renaissance yeast line is fantastic. We tried their new TR-313 yeast on our Viognier last year and it was great. Of course, I've always been a big supporter of Avante (and Prelude) for reds. I...

Looking forward to this @NorCal ! Thanks for organizing! It will be fun to hear all of our perceptions of the same wines. As a community on this forum, we rarely get to synchronize like this, so that will be fun. Also looking forward to hearing from their somm. I understand he also knows...

So sorry George. I can hardly imagine the horror of hearing that happen then seeing the floor! Sounds like your recovery is proceeding along well. We'll have to trade wine so I can experience this EPIC wine one day!

I would water it back and use aciduated water.

It was a blast! So much great wine and wine stories and @NorCal's Big Barn was a perfect spot. It was great to meet @crushday. Special moment was @NorCal pulling out a hidden award-winning 2015 wine of mine (Barbera) that I gave him many years ago that we all assumed was long gone. Taking this...

Looking forward to it!

Glad to see many are happily harvesting and making wine already. I would be too if I didn't get a message from my Barbera grower while I WAS ON THE WAY to pick up 1500 pounds of grapes last week, "sorry but the deer devastated my crop and I have no grapes for you". He says it's the 1st time in...

The vineyard I source Barbera from has consistently hit ripeness and harvested Labor Day weekend....at least for the last three years. This year things are running a little earlier. Measurements from 8/13 had Brix of 24.5 - 25.0, pH of 3.2. We want to get pH up to 3.3-3.5 and can water back...

He loved to chat, didn't he? You're right, always a crowd around him. I wonder how many times he's shared certain stories.

Same.....We have a 2019 Cab just BEGGING to be bottled!

With grape harvest just around the corner, it's a good time to plan and order your supplies. I placed our order last week and the vendor commented that it's very smart, especially this year, to order way ahead of the crowd. He said there will likely be shortages of "your favorite items" if you...

We ended up buying a second Label Wizard to speed the process!

I talked with **** a few years ago.

What a great neighbor!

The two wines have their differences, but it's not stark. It's not that one is better than the other but almost like you have two different vineyards (even those these are both from the same source). I would say the Prelude CF has a rounder, fuller body. A little more complexity and...

I saw Four Score and just had to check out this thread! :)