Wine & Music Inspirations V – Rufus & Chaka Khan
Certainly, my Friday night pleaser. After spending all day yesterday and early today dropping fruit in the vineyards (boy, is life hard?), I returned back to the winery for evening cap maintenance. This song popped on and took the lead as today’s wine & music inspiration. Its rhythm was perfect for traipsing around the one inch edges of the fermenting bins. I’m always calling on my past gymnastic experience and my current yoga practices for these balancing times. But I was feeling extra lively tonight dancing to the rhythms of Tell Me Something Good by Rufus & Chaka...
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This morning was the first day of a harvest that is certain to continue well into November. The excitement, the hurry up and wait, the restless nights are finally assuaged with the reception of our first grapes at The Blending Room. But before their arrival at 12:20PM, yours truly was all a flutter and seeking solace in anything but facebook or twitter. Thus, I turned to my now incessant search for wine and music inspirations. This is not an easy thing to do, let me tell you, but was just the task I needed to ease my apprehensive mind. I searched through the abyss of a music collection held...
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This week, we took the time to rack some aging wines. Racking entails transfering the wine from the barrel, washing out the sediment (lees), returning the wine to the barrel and topping off the barrel with extra wine. We transfer the wine by pressurizing the barrel with inert gas and pushing the wine through the hose to the waiting vessel. This method is very gentle on the wine and limits unnecessary exposure to the air. It’s nice not to have to use the pump for this process. As much as I like our little pump, it requires priming which can be a chore, especially for this job. The...
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