What's going on in your winery today..

[NV68]

First Wine No.1 bottled yesterday. 1 in the fridge for later Beaverdale Barolo de-gassing and ready to start fining tonight. Needs more oak though (probably because most of it blew out of the airlock at the start). Gallon of Wine no.2 started off this morning. This is fun!

[mark g]

Today i started two gallons of elderberry&blackberry wine.

[SiSandrine]

Teaching the kids how to measure must temperature and how to punch down. Figured it could come in useful some day. Its a science project, right?

[lockwood1956]

lol

[NorthernWiner]

Ordered two new barrels today to replace some older ones. 55-liter French oak from Tonnellerie Radoux, and 50-liter American oak from our local cooperage, the Barrel Mill.

I love the smell of new barrels in the morning.

[DaveH]

Teaching the kids how to measure must temperature and how to punch down. Figured it could come in useful some day. Its a science project, right?

DaveH LIKES THIS A LOT!!!

Must see if it works with my 2.....Ben was very inquisitive yesterday whilst i was building a new PC at home......

[robwrx]

Teaching the kids how to measure must temperature and how to punch down. Figured it could come in useful some day. Its a science project, right?

Glad to see I'm not the only one irresponsible enough to get children to help my eldest who is 7 has also helped with punching down and has been "shooting" everything with the contactless thermometer.

[Cellar_Rat]

contactless thermometer.

Are they any good ?

[goldseal]

Not so much IN my winery, but OUTSIDE ....

... drilled some holes in the patio & installed expanding bolts. I can now bolt down my super new press, which should make life easier.

[Delmonteman]

Wondering when i am going to get the time to press my skins this weekend!!!

[robwrx]

Are they any good ?

Yes, I think so.

You don't need to sanitise it

This is the one I've got http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Non-Contac...#ht_3551wt_922

I've checked it against my stick thermometer and happy that it is within 1c. It does only measure the surface temp though.

[NorthernWiner]

While cleaning up my wine room I found a dust-caked 3-gallon carboy of Port I started back in 2005. Positively delicious. So I'm bottling that today, along with some of last year's Pinot Noir.

[goldseal]

I found a dust-caked 3-gallon carboy of Port I started back in 2005.

oooh, you lucky thing .

I have been pressing and cleaning up - more details over on the Grapefest 2012 Ferments thread.

[SiSandrine]

I have to work myself up to bottling 10 gallons of Grapefest wine from 2011 in order to have enough secondary fermentation containers for this years.

[Cellar_Rat]

What yo need is an enolmatic. I fort it off for years.. but they are brill.