Friday, October 23, 2009

Pressing day + 19, 2009: more clarity


Same 750 of overflow Muscat.  Now much more clear - hard to believe it would have happened given the opaqueness of the juice on pressing day.

We should expect to rack the weekend of the 7th / 8th November?

2 comments:

sinequanon said...

Nov 7th/8th sounds great for us!

Steve Lewis said...

Good!

it's easy as pie - the Grimaldi / Savino three carboys will take less than an hour. We start by siphoning off into a clean carboy, and wash the ones we've just emptied to siphon the next carboys.

My guess is that you won't lose any volume from the Syrah. If we do though, it will need less than 750 ml - you might consider bringing a medium quality bottle as a topper. Or not.

The Grenache could be a whole other story. It was darned opaque, and I'm guessing between the two cbs you could loose up to a gallon of volume. But we have a good number of 3 gallon and one gallon bottles, so shouldn't have a problem.