Kissing the 2008 Cab S. good-bye

Well, it was just hanging fire.  About three months ago the seal on the 100 liter tank of the 2008 Long Island Cab S. got cranky and was loosing pressure every day or two and I finally decided to just let it go.  The grapes were too low a brix in the first place, we chapitalized some, we fussed and we hemmed and we hawed and we never got to where we wanted to be.    This morning I just threw in the towel, setting aside 2 gallons of the oxidized wine / vinegar to boil down into a reeducation we might use for cooking, and kissing the rest good-bye.  It's gone, the tank cleaned and dismantled.  There's still 5 or 10 gallons of the un-chapitalized wine in car boys.  Onward and upward.

Here's a pic of a gallon of the wine, reduced to about a quart and a half.  Not thick yet.  I'm aiming for syrup.