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We did 2,000lbs of Zin this year. Blend was 80% Old Vine Zin / 12% Carignan / 8% Petit Syrah. The yeast we chose was Avante Renaissance and VP41 MLB. No Enzymes. It was left on the skins for 7 days before pressing. The color and taste is already very promising :)

What type of yeast did you use for Chenin Blanc?

Asked the wife for 1.5L of this.

It's really a special place, episode 2 was my favorite. They do things so naturally down there starting with dry farming. It really gets me wondering about all these additives that people are dumping into their wine. I think next year I will try a wild ferment with minimal sulfite to experiment.

I enjoyed it. There are definitely far worse things to watch from my perspective.

9 was definitely not the best. Episodes 1, 2, 6 and 8 were my favourites. 2 especially in beautiful Montalcino.

Yeah I get spam emails everyday as well. The series is available for free if you watch it during the free time zones, I wouldn't pay for it. I actually disagree with the post above and found many of the episodes very interesting. Mainly the Italy episodes in Montalcino/Piedmont and Chianti...

Has anyone been watching this? It's pretty interesting: https://www.winerevealed.com/trailer/

Simple answer - use an oak barrel instead!

definitely keep her wrapped until she's ready for barrel prep and then wine.

Let's see this barrel unwrapped!

6 months bottle aging significantly cuts the oak back noticeably from my perspective. It works wonders to my wines. Not easy to keep wines bottled for 6 months however!

What did the Odette Cab set you back per bottle? Had it once and it was superb.

Drain and refill with very hot water inside and out. What edge is it leaking from?

Easiest barrel stand ever. Upside down pallet. Can’t wait to fill this guy with some old vine Zin.

Cant get my hands on PV down here. Wish I could, it's a great blender.

Agree 100% couldn’t do the volume we do without the pressure washer cleanup.

Definitely efficient pressing!

We open the cases and sort all of the clusters out by hand and then put them in separate containers before loading them in the hopper. Any leaves, or other unwanted dried out fruit discarded if they are bad. We get the ladies to do this, they are very thorough!