Update: White Wine

Note - this post was first published 3/15/2014.

This week we racked our white wine.  After aging for 5 months in stainless steel, it's really coming around.  We're excited about the color, clarity, aroma, and flavors.  We're shooting for another month of aging or so, and then hopefully we'll be ready next month to rack the wine again and bottle our first vintage!

Which leads us to our favorite photo this week: racking our white wine:

Lees

Note - this post was first published 3/8/2014.

lees: the sediment of a liquor (as wine) during fermentation and aging > Merriam-Webster

lees: Heavy sediment left in the barrel by fermenting wines; a combination of spent yeast cells and grape solids > winemag.com

lees: sediment consisting of dead yeast cells, grape pulp, seed, and other grape matter that accumulates during fermentation > Wine School of Philadelphia

We took this photo when we racked some of our wine off the lees (just taking the clean wine, taking care).

Our Wine Project

Note - this post was first published 3/1/2014.

We're working on our dreams not only in the vineyard, but in the cellar too. 2013 is our first vintage as winemakers!  We're still hard at work; the wines aren't quite ready for release, but with a little patience the flavors are starting to shine and we're getting excited.

We've got a red and a white going.  Recently sampled our wine and took it to a local wine laboratory.

When we received the results and a little insight into how the is wine aging, we racked the wine (moved the clean wine off any sediment that had settled at the bottom) and looking down at the bottom of the empty barrel was one of my favorite photos from this week: