Tuesday, January 22, 2002
There were only a few minor problems today during our first day of blending our 2001 wines:
Saturday, January 26, 2002 The blending is over!! Things went real smoothly. I personally did very little since I had all the barrels set up and Brendan had marked them ahead of time. The wines are all shook up now and will improve over the next several weeks. By Barrel Tasting on the 2nd and 3rd of March, the wines will taste fine. I actually tasted all the wines today since we had a few customers come by. They all tasted pretty good for only a couple of days in the barrel. If you check on our order form, you will see we have chosen the name for our new wine. "Terre Melange" replaces "D.C. Cuvee". The translation suggests "Earth Mixes". Since the wine is a mixture of grapes grown in many different soils, I feel it is a good name. I have also decided not to produce the Cab Franc, which then was blended into the Terre Melange. I had a dilemma regarding the cab franc: I received only a small amount of cab franc grapes from my neighbor and had sold already more futures than I could make in wine. Any of you who purchased cab franc, will receive an e-mail or letter from us with your options regarding replacement. We've had this sort of dilemma before! The new percentage of varietals for the Terre Melange came out to be
38% Carignan, 17% Zinfandel, 15% Pinot, 14% Cab Franc, 9% Barbera and 7%
Cabernet. The alcohol came out to 14.32%. Here are the other alcohols:
BTW, my alcolizer performed flawlessly so I paid the $15,000 bill (see
my earlier concerns in Week 2 and Week
3 of this year).
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