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My grapes from Brehm came in last week, 100 lbs of Pinot, 50lbs of Merlot and 100lbs of Cabernet. I pressed the Pinot at 4 brix after 4 days of fermentation, the Merlot will be pressed this weekend and the Cabernet will go through and extended maceration.
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I was wondering if my fermentation's are happening too fast for my reds. My wines go from 24 ish Brix down to 0 in under five days usually. The cap still forms so there is still sugar fermenting so I dont know if I just need to get a more accurate hydrometer for measuring the lower Brix. If you go to my website http://www.vinetowine2008.com and go to the logs page you can pull up a PDF file of my fermentation's and see the measurements. Are others seei… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2008 at 10:42am — 4 Comments
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Yes. All of my aging is done in the SS kegs. Easy to purge with the argon, easy to take samples, easy to keep toppoed off and NO evaporation. I've been using the oak stave segments from morewinemaking.com. Although to get them in, you have to snap them in half along the grain so they'll fit.
It doesn't take many of them, and after the keg is racked and empty of wine, I just turn the keg over and pull the stave pieces out one at a time with my fingers. It's a little bit of a pain, and cubes would be easier, but I like the staves better.
Good luck.
Chris
THis was second bud for the 50 Zins. I let 1-2 bunches grow per vine as a test this year and got 65 lbs. Expecting 5-6 imes tat next year. THe color was really intense on these clones from 100 year old vines. The Pitite Sirah I planted this past spring are not nearly as vigorous. I read "From vines to wines" about 20 times before starting and took a small vineyard class at the local University in order to get going. Good Luck!