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Desert Wine Plan

Shahrokh is making a late harvest syrah, with  me as consulting winemaker!

  • Grapes have been crushed; 18″ deep in macrobin = 151 gallons must.
  • Hoping to get 70 gallons wine. My normal prediction is 91 gallons wine, but these are a little dessicated.
  • Would like > 30 brix. 28 at crush time; let it soak up a few days.
Brix Brix
Day# Date Day Time Temp Refr Hydro Comments
0 10/29 Mon 12PM ~48 28 30 Crush; cold soak; Add 50ppm sulphites (496 ml 10% SO2 solution
1 10/30 Tue  8AM Cold soak;
2 10/31 Wed 12PM 50  28 30 Cold soak; Added dry ice; mixed it up before sampling
3 11/1 Thu  8AM Cold soak;
4 11/2 Fri 8AM
  • Cold soak; Take sample to Vinquiry
  • Brix 28.3 °Brix Refractometer*
  • pH 3.91 Autotitrator
  • Titratable Acidity 0.476 g/100mL Autotitrator
  • Ammonia 26 mg/L Enzymatic*
  • Assimilable Amino Nitrogen 173 mg/L Spectrometer
  • Malic Acid 239 mg/100mL Enzymatic
5 11/3 Sat 8AM Warming; Added 0.5 g/l tartaric acid (assuming 70 gallons wine)
 6 11/4  Sun  8AM Warming
 7 11/5  Mon  8AM 59 Pitch yeast;

  • Epernay2 yeast selected for ability to stop.
  • Need 1.5 g/gallon = 227g = 8oz = 2 4oz packets, which is higher than normal (1g/gallon) because of high sugar.
  • Need 283 g GoFerm = 10 oz = 4 3oz packets
 4PM 64 28 30
 8PM 67 - -
8 11/6  Tue  8AM  66 - - Pitch FermaidK – double batchNeed 0.9 g/gallon * 151 gallons = 137 g
12PM  68 - -
3PM  69 - -
9 11/7 Wed 8AM  72 25/24.5 26/25  Right/Left bins
12PM 72 - -
5PM 74 -  -
 11 11/8 Thu 8AM  76 - -
12PM  76 - 18.5/17.5
5PM - - - Second round of FermaidK 0.9 g.gallon = 137 g
11 11/9 Fri 8AM  72 -  15/14
12PM 72 - 14/13.5
5PM 72 - 13.5/12.5
12 11/10 Sat 8AM 72  - 11/10.5
12PM 74 - 10.5/10
5PM 74 - 10/9
 13 11/11 Sun 11AM 74 -  8/7.5 Removed 45 L (11.9 gallons) of juice for Port. Added back 3 gallons of water acidulated to 7 g/l.
14 11/12 Mon  8AM 72 - 5/4.5
12PM 72 - 4/3.5
5PM 72 - 3.5/2.5
15 11/13 Tue 8AM  70 - 2/2
12PM 70 - 1/1.5
5PM 71/72 - 0/0.5
16 11/14 Wed 8AM 72 - 0/0
12PM 72 - 0/0
5PM 72 - -1/-1
17 11/15 Thu 11AM - -2 Press: 90 gallons of wine.
18 11/16 Fri Rack to Barrel.Inoculate for MLF with Enoferm Alpha
19 11/17 Sat Leave for Cancun

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