2018 Merlot

This was an interesting year as we had been being followed by a film maker (Joe Daniels)
  creating a movie about small batch winemaking The name of the movie is called
 "Tiny Vineyards"
 and was shown at the Sonoma Film Festival in 2019.  
The grapes had gotten started harvesting just before I had gotten there and were not quite ripe enough. 
So we canceled picking for the day and started crushing and fermenting what we had.
A week later, we came back and harvested more which all got blended together.

September 13th 2018
picked 457 lbs.
22° Brix
pH 3.01
T.A. 8.25 gram/liter
30 ppm SO2
added Red increase enzyme
Pitched with Williams Selyem yeast

September 20th 2018
added VP41 Malo-lactic culture

September 23rd 2018
picked 580 lbs
24.2° Brix
pH 3.47
T.A. 6.4 grams/liter
30 ppm SO2
added red increase enzyme
pitched with Williams Selyem Yeast
pressed first batch from the 13th and added it to the must.

September 28th 2018
Pressed and put in barrels
yield 75 gallons

October 4th 2018
racked wine and added
30 ppm SO2
73 gallons

October 17th 2018
rack and add VP41 Malo_lactic culture

December 17th 2018
racking and adding 30 ppm SO2

April 1st 2019
racking and adding 25 ppm SO2
.25 oz. /gallon Medium toast french oak chips

April 2nd 2019
lab results
13.97%ABV
Malic 6 mg/100ml
free SO2 41 mg/liter

October 6th 2019
25 ppm SO2

February 13th 2020
Racking
#2 Buon Vino filter all of this wine
 add 30 ppm SO2  and bottle 42 gallons
add 25 ppm SO2 to 30 gallon balance  

June 2nd 2020

#3 Boun Vino filter (.5 micron) add 40 ppm SO2
Bottle
Yield 12 cases

Total yield on this wine was 29 Cases