chambourcins

[winointraining]

Picked up 50lbs of chambourcin grapes today, they are resting nicely in a fermenter dreaming of the little yeasties to join them.

 

[cmason1957]

Congrats on the pickup. I picked up 300 pounds on Saturday, it is fermenting away quite nicely in my basement. Now how to get that temp up some. It is at about 75 now. I'd like to get it up to 85.

 

[JohnT]

Glad for both of you. Chambourcin is a fantastic grape and I hope you guys do them proud!

Pictures would be nice! You did not really get them unless we see a picture!

 

[winointraining]

l don't know about pic but my back is sore from destemming and crushing by hand. They were about 20 miles from the house . Just tasting the juice , it was wonderful , lot sweeter than the concord I got a couple weeks ago.

 

[cmason1957]

Ask and ye shall receive. The first picture is before we did destemming and crush on Saturday. The second was just a few minutes ago right after I punched the cap down. And why the attachment rotated the pictures only God knows for sure.

 

[JohnT]

Thanks for the picks cmason. The look great!

 

[winointraining]

I'll get a pic when my granddaughter puts it on my puter tonite . You sure my back don't count? I know if I'm gonna do fresh grapes I'm gonna have to get me a crusher/ destemmer, or get me a more comfortable chair.

 

[winointraining]

here the pic I promised

 

[JohnT]

By all means, get a crusher/destemmer.

They may be expensive, but it will last a lifetime with the proper care.

I bought mine on 1995, and it is still going strong. I could not count how many tons of grapes the thing processed!

 

[cmason1957]

I came home from work today and punched a very small cap down. Time to check the SG. It was down to 1.002.my wide was irritated and said "crud, you are going to make me work tonight." Three hours later 25.5 gallons of chambourcin off the skins. And nobody needs to tell me the one needs topped off or into a smaller carboy. It elm be tomorrow. Here's pictures my wife took as we pressed.

 

[winointraining]

That's some nice lookin wine!

 

[LCW]

good looking stuff what yeast did you go with.Wish you were close my chambourcins are ready to pick and I could use a partner.LCW

 

[winointraining]

I used lavin 41b

 

[LoneStarLori]

Oh that is beautiful! I'm so jealous. Keep us posted with pictures. I love watching the process.

CMason: if you took the first pics with an iPhone turned vertical in a certain direction, it loads horizontal. But... i have also had pictures that I rotated on my computer continue to load here the wrong way.
I dunno.. website or Steve Jobs' ghost?

 

[cmason1957]

Thanks for all the kind words. The proof will be in the tasting in about a year.

Yeast I used, Lavlin RC212.

iPhones are the spawn of the devil Apple empire and I have never and will never own one. I find Android to fit my tastes much better, oh and I write Android software, maybe that has something to do with my feelings on that. Maybe it does have something to do with the orientation of the phone, not for sure. I'll try to remember next time I take a picture and upload it.

 

[winointraining]

Bottled my chambourcin today. Wound up with 22 bottles of wine resting up for a few months. It tasted wonderful, with some age it'll be killer.

 

[RegionRat]

Thanks for sharing. I love to see other peoples pictures of their process.

RR