Mourvedre STILL fermenting

The must is truly delicious.

syrah counoise

we left some syrah behind last week because our bins were full.

syrah - 20 70%

counoise 20 60%

we had two days of rain then partly cloudy and humid. today heavy fog all day. brix in syrah has dropped over four degrees.

mourvedre syrah

we harvested these two on tuesday September 28th under cloudy skies. after an almost ideal september the moderate temperatures came to end. 105 in alpine over the week-end. i watered before and during with the plan being to let the plants recover from shutting down.

we got the following readings monday night and decided to harvest tuesday morning -

mourvedre 24.5 70%
syrah 24 90%

by thursday tropical air moved into the county and we had two days of rain.

Zoom! Fermentation starts in Mourvedre & Syrah

Fermeting and already full of color.