Intense fog here in 11215. Karen sends this pic of the grapes @ M&M - she's got the goods and is heading east southeast.
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| Grapes @ M&M. Gird yourself. |
Karen and Jake arrived at about 10, and a giant crew started arriving shortly after. Jon, Doyle, Dan, Nina, Mike, Pam, Carmello, Mihai, Colleen, Steph. So many hands that Jon and I absented ourselves for a while to bottle a couple of cases of the 2010 Pooptivo, and so many bodies that we decided to put out a second sorting table so everyone could be hands on. The quality of the grapes was really excellent - very little to be picked out.
By 2:00 we finishing clean-up and sitting down to lunch. (The focaccias with first the Cab Franc berries and then the Merlot berries were yummy.)
The 9 cases of Merlot translated to about 28 gallons of must, and the 4 cases of Cab F translated to about 12 gallons of must. Merlot was about 25 Brix and 3.27 PH, the Cab F 22 Brix and 3.57 PH. Both wines tested too low for acid, but I was using old chemicals and will try agin tomorrow with new.
After lunch we prepared MT yeast with GoFerm to boost it. We purchased a little less yeast than recommended - because we calculated against expected finished wine volumes rather than must volumes. After a little tension we decided to relax, use what we have and divvy it up and pitch. There's some minimal fermentation happening already (late evening) but nothing to write home about.
Lots of pictures got taken throughout the day. Hopefully we'll get some posted tomorrow.
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