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Update on ripening: We try to pick by pH, flavor,
fruit condition, brix and projected weather.
I will fill in numbers as Tom does the test. Where
there are just brix numbers, he hasn't run test and we have just dipped the
refractometer.
Previous brix histories
Print out a tartaric acid chart
and a Sugar Chart. Calcium
Carbonate strongly recommended for use this year before fermentation or if
fermenting on the skins, immediately after pressing. Treat
1/3 of the volume.
2009 brix
|
Variety |
Brix |
TA |
pH |
|
Aurore |
NA |
NA |
NA |
|
Baco |
16.2 |
1.725 |
2.75 |
|
Baron's
Blend |
22.4 |
.84 |
3.25 |
Baron's
Blend
picked up after Oct 27 |
22.5 |
.859 |
3.25 |
|
Cabernet
Franc |
20 |
TASTE GOOD |
|
|
Cabernet
Sauvignon |
21-22 |
TASTE GOOD |
|
|
Carmine |
17 |
|
|
|
Catawba Tom
helped this out with some of the blends and adjusted a very high original
acid to .85 |
15 |
.85 |
3.35 |
|
Cayuga
picked up by Oct 7 |
14 |
1.08 |
3.05 |
| Cayuga after Oct
8 |
14 |
1.14 |
|
|
Chambourcin |
17 |
1.48 |
2.95 |
|
Chancellor |
16 |
1.4 |
2.80 |
|
Chardonnay |
19.4 |
1.14 |
3.00 |
|
Chelois |
no
juice |
|
|
|
Colobel |
no
juice |
|
|
|
Concord |
12 |
1.245 |
3.10 |
| deChaunac |
no juice this year |
|
|
|
Delaware |
13 |
.99 |
3.35 |
|
Diamond |
14.4 |
1.275 |
3.10 |
|
Foch |
18 |
1.03 |
3.25 |
|
Gewurztraminer |
19 |
0.93 |
|
|
Hybrid
Blends: |
|
Baron's Red |
22.4 |
.84 |
3.25 |
|
Maiden's Blush |
20.0 |
.76 |
3.30 |
|
White Blend
"Contessa Bella" |
21.2 |
.76 |
3.35 |
|
Blends explained below at the bottom of the page. |
| VINIFERA BLEND |
|
|
|
EYE OF THE PARTRIDGE
A blend of Chardonnay and lightly pressed Merlot. |
21.8 |
.77 |
3.25 |
|
Late
Harvest Vignoles |
This
has been cancelled for 2009 |
|
Leon Millot |
17.6 |
1.455 |
3.05 |
|
Maiden's
Blush |
20.0 |
.76 |
3.30 |
| Merlot juice |
19.2 |
.79 |
3.05 |
|
Merlot as
grapes |
19.8 |
|
|
|
Muscat
Ottonel |
14 |
.90 |
|
|
Niagara |
11.5 |
.975 |
3.25 |
| NY
73.1136.17"Noiret" |
18 |
1.2 |
|
|
Pinot
Noir grapes |
20.5-21 |
|
|
| Pinot
Noir JUICE |
18.8 |
1.09 |
3.05 |
|
Ravat-51
Vignoles |
16 |
1.545 |
3.05 |
| Vignoles Oct 10 and after |
16 |
1.40 |
|
|
Riesling: Tom
used Potassium Bicarbonate to lower the original acid. MUST COLD
STABILIZE! |
19.4 |
1.036 |
3.15 |
|
Seyval |
15.8 |
1.185 |
3.10 |
| Traminette |
18 |
1.282 |
2.95 |
|
Vidal |
18 |
1.35 |
2.95 |
|
Vignoles Ravat-51 |
16 |
1.545 |
2.90 |
White
Queen's Blend
"Contessa Bella" |
21.2 |
.76 |
3.35 |
EYE OF THE PARTRIDGE
A blend of Chardonnay and lightly pressed Merlot. |
21.8 |
.77 |
3.25 |
|
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Baron’s Blend
is traditionally a blend of Chancellor, Baco, Foch, and Leon Millot and
Chambourcin. A dark hearty bodied Bordeaux style.
Eye of the Pa'tridge Tom's new
blend of lightly pressed Merlot and Chardonnay. A wonderful royal
pairing. A surprisingly complex and serious rose.
Maiden's Blush
is a fruity wine best finished with a little residual sugar. It is a blend
of Aurore, Cayuga, usually Chelois, however, due to that shortage, Tom used
another red to color. While it looks dark in your container, it should
lighten with fermentation. We usually recommend a 71B or Cotes des Blanc
for this wine.
White Blend is a combination of
Seyval, Vignoles and Vidal. All blends are sugar and acid adjusted.
The percentages vary, the order the
varieties are listed in not necessary in order of volume of those juices used,
however, it is for the 2008 blends.
Thank you for your Patronage!
May all your wines
Fall Bright!
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