What's in your glass tonight?

[ibglowin]

IYKYK........

 

[Christopher Anderson]

Shots. Tequila. Blanco and Resposado. Owners are friends in Fredericksburg

 

[winemaker81]

My next-to-last bottle of a FWK Tavola Pinot Noir, coming up on 3 years old.



It's holding well at 3 yo; the quality is fine and the longevity is great. However, I'd not make another Tavola without 1 skin pack. I intentionally made it as a concentrate only, wanting a quicker drinker. In hindsight it's too light bodied for my taste.

However, it's a fantastic cooking wine for beef. Tonight I pressure cooked stew beef with onion and mushrooms, and this wine make a VERY rich sauce.

 

[Hazelemere]

Chardonnay Fleur d'Oranger 2023-24

This is my last Sheridan Vineyard Chardonnay 2023 71B ferment blend in a glass with Fresco Australian Orange Muscat. We added citric acid to the Chardonnay because 71B yeast made it a bit flat. I'll bottle 4 Orange Muscats on their own. I'll test the sulphite in a 50/50 blended 30 bottle carboy and put it back into my cooler.

Tasting comments from a blend in a glass:

Appearance - clear, deep, lemon yellow

Smell - good creamy, muscat nose

Tannin - good

Acid - good for my palate. My wife may find it a bit tangy right now.

Flavour - this is tasty and fragrant with a good finish. It should improve as it ages and citric acid esters develop with malic acid and tartaric acid esters and the acid drops a bit. I'd rate it as very good right now. I'll try to age it at least 3 years after I bottle it around Easter 2025.

retaste:

Appearance - clear, deep, lemon yellow

Smell - good creamy, fragrant muscat nose that lingers

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - this is very tasty and fragrant with a really good finish. It should improve as it ages with the potential to become very good-excellent. So I'll try to age much of it. Consider adding citric acid to any flat Chardonnay. 71B gives you a good nose but drops the acid. Its a good yeast candidate for a white hybrid grape.

 

[jswordy]

 

[Hazelemere]

retaste

Pacific Chardonnay 2021-2022

This is Brehm frozen California 2021 Chardonnay juice in a pail and cut with russet cyser about 85/15. The Chardonnay was a bit tangy and buttered popcorn like without any Sonoma or Carneros like fruit cocktail smell that I love in really good California Chardonnay. So I hit the Chardonnay my apple honey wine from my organic russets ground and pressed with unpasteurized blueberry blossom honey. This worked!

Colour - deep yellow

Smell - very nice and complex - bananas, lychees, pears, honeydew melon

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - rich, complex Chardonnay with a really nice aftertaste. This will age. I have 7 left so will let them age for at least 3 years in my cooler (i.e. open one every 6 months or a year). I rate it as very good right now. The Russet cyser spike seems to have improved it a lot.

retaste

Colour - deep yellow with very slight gold

Smell - very nice and complex - bananas, lychees, pears, honeydew melon, papaya

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - rich, complex Chardonnay with a really nice aftertaste. I have one left. This is excellent. So I'll age the last one so I can see how it morphs over time.

 

[David Violante]