Dornfelder Harvest 2018

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JimInNJ

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Harvested the Dornfelder on September 22nd, four vines, one in each corner of my little vineyard:
DornfelderHarvest.jpg

My "Italian" Destemmer in action:


After Destemming:DornfelderDestemmed.jpg
Crushing:


Ready to Ferment:
DornfelderFerment.jpg

...One week later...

Pressing 1:


Pressing 2:


After Pressing, before Racking off Gross Lees:
DornfelderPostPressing.jpg
 
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My mother is also a Dornfelder fan, either as a semisweet wine or as a table grape. We've never had a dry Dornfelder to try, but we will in a few months.
 
My mother is also a Dornfelder fan, either as a semisweet wine or as a table grape. We've never had a dry Dornfelder to try, but we will in a few months.
Let a few bottles of that dry one age a bit. I have a dry batch I made from local grapes (Southern PA) and it's improving with age. It's about to turn 37 months old, I think I need to open a bottle (and I owe a bottle to @bkisel, who I will attempt to see next weekend if he's around). Used BDX yeast and CH35 MLB. I still have 16 bottles left from the batch, glad I've saved that many. I'd like to take a few bottles up over 5 yrs old if I can, the aging potential is definitely there in my opinion.
 

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