Liqueurs started for the June 5, 2010 party

Double batch of the lemon sage (Juju Pongo's Love Balm), this time using a Torrentes for the white wine portion.  Single batch of the pistachio, this time using whole cloves and cinnamon bark rather than ground of each.

Oaking the 2009 blend

Very late, we've added 3/5 of the total oak to the 4 carboys of Cheatle / Lewis / Sclafani blend.  French medium toast.  Will add the remaining needed 2/5 within a couple of days, unless I totally spaz out. 

No oak to the Muscat - if one of the partners wants to experiment with this we need to break down the carboy to a 3 gal and two singles.  Might be fun to try a little light oak there.

(Mike and Pam oaked their Grenach last week with medium French, and the Syrah with heavy French.  Pam's not at all happy with the Syrah or what she said was it's pukey aftertaste.  So Mike is nuking it. )

Bottled the last of the 2007 production

The last carboy from 2007 - Peter's Sangiovese free run, got bottled today, and we'll use it for the June party.  24 bottles plus a half bottle for the cook.

Close examination of the blue tape that was on the CB shows faint ink saying that it's Barbera,  Then there's Sharpie over that saying Sangiovese.  We'd better query the cook's half bottle pretty closely...