We spent a cold, Saturday afternoon “Making Merry”!!
First up… our Red Ball Sangiovese was ready to be bottled. Why Red Ball, you ask? Well, when we were checking the Specific Gravity one day (so the lid was off), we bumped the Birch Tree and knocked a red Christmas ball into the wine! 😬 Oops! But, a name was born! 😃
What we learned when we started this wine is that Sangiovese is the main grape in Chianti! Chianti is one of my favorite wines!! 🍷🍷
First step was to re-rack it. Then we filtered it. Here’s Brian just as the filtering is getting going …
Had to have a wee sample! WOW! What a great wine!! …
A little over half-way …
Then we bottled it! … almost 23 L ( ≈ 30 x 750 ml bottles)
Next, we racked the as-of-yet-unnamed Mead into a carboy for aging …
Then we started a new wine!! This time a German Gewurztraminer (pronounced “Guh-voorts-truh-meener” … yes, we had to look up how to pronounce it! 😃
Both the Mead and the Gewurztraminer are in the Office, one aging and one fermenting.
As the Mead ages, the solids will drop out and it will clear. We’ll move it downstairs this coming week. In a couple months, we’ll re-rack, filter and bottle. And come up with a name!! 😃
The Gewurztraminer will ferment for about two weeks in the Office; then we’ll rack it and let it stabilize and clear for a few weeks, and… come up with a name! 😃
And finally, we labeled the Red Ball Sangiovese …
I also created new “Redtail Rise Kitchen Fixin’s” labels! Liking this version much better!
And, downstairs they go! …
