AlFulchino
Winemaker of 30+ years
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2008
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12 batches...thank you Mike...so that of course gets my thoughts centered around cost...if you ran 12 batches thru it and i believe you said the cost was around 140 plus shipping if i may add that in there ( correct me if i am wrong about any of the pricing as i am doing this from memory) let us say the ship charge was 30 dollars...so you would be into this for 170....after the 12 batches you into it for 14 dollars and change per batch...if you factor in a carboy purchased at a reasonable price of 25 dollars, the carboy would rate at 2 dollars plus per same batch...in the end by batch 13 you have two neutral vessels, w one requiring a bit more maintenance than the other...fair enough so far
getting back to the original 12 batches we have to add in the cost oak adjuncts to the wine made in carboys...so the 12 dollar difference in each batch is further reduced to under ten dollars difference per batch.....that's not bad in terms of numbers when you think about it!
add of course the beauty of the oak barrels and that has to be worth something in terms of dollar value to the wine maker because afterall while it is about the deliciousness of wine it is also about the craft
long story short...the economics are there to justify the original purchase price
did i miss anything?
getting back to the original 12 batches we have to add in the cost oak adjuncts to the wine made in carboys...so the 12 dollar difference in each batch is further reduced to under ten dollars difference per batch.....that's not bad in terms of numbers when you think about it!
add of course the beauty of the oak barrels and that has to be worth something in terms of dollar value to the wine maker because afterall while it is about the deliciousness of wine it is also about the craft
long story short...the economics are there to justify the original purchase price
did i miss anything?