The late harvest ’12s
Gorgeous Monday!
I had the afternoon free at the farm, so I borrowed Esteban and decided to rack the late harvest 12’s.
- 2012 LH Syrah port:
- Racked the 13 gallon barrel into a 30 gallon tub.
- Cleaned the barrel
- Pumped wine back into the barrel, sulphiting +10 ppm (8.5 ml SO2 solution)
- Tasted and smelled great. It seemed sweeter than it was at the last tasting. I wonder if it is possible for the sugar to sink to the bottom when it is just sitting in barrel.
- 2012 LH Syrah:
- Racked the 15 gallon barrel into a 30 gallon tub.
- Racked some of the 60 gallon barrel into same 30 gallon tub, so 50-50 mix.
- Cleaned the 15 gallon barrel.
- Pumped the mixed wine back into the 15 gallon barrel, sulphiting +10 ppm (10 ml SO2 solution)
- Finished racking the 60 gallon barrel into tubs.
- Cleaned the barrel. Surprising amount of sediment came out when washing.
- Pumped the wine back into the barrel, sulphiting +15 ppm (60 ml SO2 solution)
The room smelled so good, until I decided to burn some sulphur disks in the empties. This time I used the new sulphur burner, and raised the sulphur off the based with the toroidal spring. I lit it outside, and let it get really burning, then put it into the glass jar and ran it inside. Worked great! I took it out in 15 minutes, and the sulphur was all ash. I did both the 30 and 60 gallon barrels.