Merry Christmas to All !

To all the wonderful friends and family in my life,  I wish you good fortune, good health, and lots of fish (because fish live in great places).  Let us not forget those who are less fortunate and remember that we all have ways to help each other in small and big ways every day. Flash Mob Christmas…

Claudia and Marcello’s Christmas Party

We have these neighbors that are pretty special.  Claudia is a fantastic baker.  The kind of baker that makes wedding cakes that have their own airline ticket.  Marcello is an audiophile\dj\technology wizard that has one of the largest most eclectic collection of lossless audio media I know and that is a huge amount of music…

Lactic acid has left the building…

Today racked our  20 gallons of wine.  Racking involves siphoning the wine from the sediment.  It  is essential to the  clarification of the wine and helps inhibit the production of unwanted off-flavors.    Chromatography shows that our malolactic acid fermentation is complete and we have no more lactic acid  in the wine.  We added american oak…