Category Archives: Meaningless
Cooper’s Visit
I just had the extreme pleasure of a visit by Francois Witasse and his wife (excuse me for not getting her name) and young son. Francois is the Directeur General for Tonnellerie Demptos in Bordeaux. They do quite a bit of business with our local cooper, McGinness Wood Products and were in the area paying [...]
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Titannic
Looks like a misspelling, but it’s my name for a grape found growing here at Peaceful Bend. This guy seems to just want to be wine. It is a volunteer vine located near our crush pad. Most years, the majority of it’s crop makes it through to harvest, without any intervention whatsoever. This alone makes [...]
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New Wine
This is a project we’ve been working on this winter. The wine will only be available at the Hy-Vee store at Lake of the Ozarks. But more than anything, I was just wanting to test the image upload function of the new version of WordPress.
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Pretty Good Day…
…. for being trapped in the salesroom. Had some nice customers. One of the better thing about the off season (doesn’t seem near as off as it use to be!) is that the customers that do show up are high quality. Sometimes I wonder if we structured things properly around here; I often joke about [...]
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Find Me Back at it Again
Lots has gone down since my last entry. The least of which not being that I’ve moved all websites to a new server. This took quite some time and effort and has put me way behind on many things, including keeping up with my stuff on the web. Recently, the wines been calling me back. [...]
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Winter Flood 2008
The ground was saturated with the nice rains and snows this winter, including a recent 2 inches of sleet that was like walking in a bunch of beads. Then we got an inch and half of rain with a couple hours on the night of Feb. 16/17 according to Wudack.
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Crush Part 02
Enzymes are added directly to the press starting at about 1/3 full, metering in to mix as best as possible. Sulfites are added directly to the press pan at a rate or 20 to 40 ppm depending on condition of fruit. Free run is drained into mixing tank in the cellar where it is immediately [...]
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Challenges
I’m a person who likes to be challenged, both physically, spiritually and in conversation. The latter may sound like a contradiction giving my recent “Wore Down” note, but if looking at the whole picture, it is not. I took that challenge on, sometimes to a painful level, and feel that that project is pretty much [...]
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Wore Down
After years of participating, at excessive if not obsessive levels, in online discussions, I’ve decided recently to cease. Instead, my efforts will be put towards this blog. If I put half the amount of time into putting my thoughts here, as I did in usernet (rec.craft.winemaking as well as misc.rural for awhile, and of course [...]
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Naked Truths