Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
Harvest is coming! Harvest is coming!!
It is another hot, very dry year in CA and that means harvest should come early again this year. After missing the Chilean harvest this spring, I'm itching to get started, so I've been busy planning already. Volume continues to climb this year and I'm hoping to make enough to do some actual blending. My blending has been limited to a 50/50 Cab/Merlot field blend from last year's Chilean harvest.
I'm looking to do 8 lugs this year - up from the 4 I did last year. Yield was really good last year - I have 11 gallons of OVZ from 4 lugs. The first of that is in the 23 liter Vadai now. For this year, I think I'm going to get 3 lugs of Cabernet, 3 lugs of Merlot and 2 lugs of either Petit Syrah or Petit Verdot. That'll ultimately become a mostly Cab blend, with some leftover for single varietal bottling. I may have to ask Santa for a 30L barrel this year.
What's everyone else doing?
It is another hot, very dry year in CA and that means harvest should come early again this year. After missing the Chilean harvest this spring, I'm itching to get started, so I've been busy planning already. Volume continues to climb this year and I'm hoping to make enough to do some actual blending. My blending has been limited to a 50/50 Cab/Merlot field blend from last year's Chilean harvest.
I'm looking to do 8 lugs this year - up from the 4 I did last year. Yield was really good last year - I have 11 gallons of OVZ from 4 lugs. The first of that is in the 23 liter Vadai now. For this year, I think I'm going to get 3 lugs of Cabernet, 3 lugs of Merlot and 2 lugs of either Petit Syrah or Petit Verdot. That'll ultimately become a mostly Cab blend, with some leftover for single varietal bottling. I may have to ask Santa for a 30L barrel this year.
What's everyone else doing?