We bottled the first couple of cases of 2013 Muscat today. Levels were good and we added no meta. Zippy compared to the last couple of years, but then we did add a tad of tartaric acid early on. I feel a little guilty about it, but then we didn't grow the grapes and they traveled who knows how long from the west coast and were stored for who knows how long at terminal market before they got to us.
More potassium bitartrate crystals in the CB - not nearly so much as at the last racking - and virtually no lees.
We intended to bottle 2 more cases but found that a lot of the stored empty's had crud, bugs or black mold in them - very disappointing. New house rule: no empy's get stored without a power washing and meta dip. I've scrounged around and come up with another couple of cases worth - might still get another carboy done today or tomorrow, and that'll leave us with one more.
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