7:30 AM:
Mike over to do the honors. Cal B 74 F, 1.3 B. Primitivo 73 F, 3.7 B. We're assuming a press f the Cl B tomorrow, and assuming we will no be pressing the Primitivo tomorrow.
Chatting about when to initiate the MLF. Bernardo says that Doug of Presque Isle recommends two days after pressing, when things are settled and we're not introducing any more oxygen into the wine. Makes good sense to me.
3:00 PM:
Punchdown of both wines, without readings. The ferm still be doing.
It's sharply cooler outdoors today, and the heat has been on in the house a couple of times, but the cellar temperature is unchanged - between 65 and 68 over the last 8 days. This would have been ideal for the Muscat, but when we worked that wine the weather and house were still very warm - 75 to 76 F in the cellar when we crushed, and down to 72 later that week when the wine went to zero Brix. Perverse. Mike's fretted out loud a number of times in the last week about the low temperature of the Cal Blend must - and maybe it would have gone to the 80's if the cellar were in the mid 70's. (I'm guessing Mike goes for a heat girdle next year, just in case.)
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