2015 Muscat, day 31

Sharply colder outside the last day, 38 at 8 AM, and 68 in the cellar.

A bright light shone into the necks of the carboys shows that there are still fine threads of gas rising through the wine.

Wine put into a test glass isn't yet clear but is showing the familiar dandelion yellow finish.

pH 3.71, SO2 somewhere between 20 and 25 (using year old Titrettes).

Acid measurement was off the charts.  Hmmm.  Let's try new chems.  Saw a similar measurement at this phase last year, but at the second racking a lot of acid had fallen out in potassium bitartrate crystals: let's look for the same this year.

2015 wines, day 22 - off the gross lees

Well, this is later than we've come off the gross lees in a long time - maybe ever?

• 2015 - day 22
• 2014 - day 14
• 2013 - day 14
• 2012 - day 14
• 2010 - day 10

Begorah.  Was there a whiff of the devil in the smallest of the rose bottles?  There was, and I dumped it.  Went from 3+1+.5+1-liter to 3+1+1-liter.

Topped off the Muscat with some of last year's wine and so stayed at 3+3+3.  Some pictures of the mud, below.

Muscat mud

Rose mud

Topping needed for Muscat

2015 wines, day 16

0900:  Hasn't been more than a few degrees above 50 F outside for the last 12 hours, and down to 70 F in the cellar.

Muscat continuing to slow.  (3 BPM)

The Rosé is starting to give a hint of it's color.

2015 wines, day 15

2400: Effin cold and wet.

The Muscat is sharply less active from this morning to this evening - 5 burps per minute.  Still a steady stream of bubbles coming up the sides of the CBs.  Might be fun to try to test acid tomorrow to see if we got to where we were shooting.

The Grenache Rosé over the last couple of days has lost some of it's thick sherbert look - looking more like wine.  Tough to say where exactly it will land when clear, but we are definitely talking a lot of skin color from those 60 hours of contact.

2015 Muscat, day 13

2100: 72 F in the cellar, cool and rainy outside.  Wine -1.1 Brix and still sending up a steady flow of C02.