Poppyseed Cellars

This is a first draft for this post. I will be amending it…

Pressed today into the following containers:

1. 14 gallon demijohn
2. 14 gallon demijohn
3. 15 gallon 4 year old barrel
4. 13 gallon 3 year old oak barrel
5. 6.5 gallon glass craboy
6. 6 gallon glass carboy
7. 5 gallon glass carboy
8. 3 gallon glass carboy

That adds up to 76.5 gallons of wine! That will drop a lot with racking, but it is still a lot. The goal is to end up in:

1. 30 gallon new French oak barrel
2. 15 gallon barrel
3. 13 gallons barrel
4. Some in glass for topping off the next to years.

That is 58 gallons. I think we easily have that. We are going to use some of the glass…

There was no apparent H2S smell either. It must have all blown off with the Co2 of the ferment. It is odd because we smelled it daily, although be the end of punching down it was usually gone.

Here is a record of the punching down..

Day#	Date	Day	Time	Punch	Temp	Brix	Comments
0	10/20	Thu	?	nj	50	-	Crush
1	10/21	Fri	12PM	nj	45	-	Floated bowl of dry ice on must
2	10/22	Sat	?	nj	45	26.5	Added last of dry ice.
3	10/23	Sun	?	nj	55	26.5	Used CO2 tank for CO2 layer. Try to warm up room.
4	10/24	Mon	?	?	?	?
5	10/25	Tue	?	?	?	?	Took sample to Vinquiry
6	10/26	Wed			55	25.3	Brix based on Vinquiry analysis
7	10/27	Thu	8AM	x	60	25.5
			12PM	x	62	25.5	Added yeast at 12:50PM
			5PM	x	-	-
			9PM	x	66	-	Nice cap; ferment going
8	10/28	Thu	8AM	x	-	-
			12PM	x	-	-
			5PM	x	-	-
			9PM	x	76	21.5	Good smells; very active ferment
			10:30PM	x	80	-
9	10/29	Fri	5AM	x	80	17
			8AM	x	-	-
			12PM	x	78	14
			5PM	x	-	-
			9PM	x	80	-	H2S smell started
10	10/30	Sat	8AM	x	-	10
			12PM	x	-	-
			5PM	x	-	-
			9PM	x	76	-
11	10/31	Sun	8AM	x	76	8	H2S smell; dissipated nicley withcap management
			12PM	x	74	-
			5PM	x	74	-
			9PM	x	74	6	H2S still; gone with punching
12	11/1	Mon	8AM	x	76	-
			12PM	x	72	3-5	Very hard to measure Brix; toomuch sediment; pH 3.59
			5PM	x	-	-
13	11/2	Tue	8AM	x	-	-
			12PM	x	-	-
			5PM	x	-	-
14	11/3	Wed	8AM	x	68	0-3	Brix hard to measure
15	11/4	Thu					Pressed off wine into glass.
16	11/5	Fri
17	11/6	Sat
18	11/7	Sun
19	11/8	Mon					Racked off gross lees, coppered, into barrels.
10	11/9	Tue

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