Today I did quite a few different tasks. Of course there were the daily punch downs. Today I did it the old fashioned way, by hand and someone else utilized the boom. Also on the daily task list: Inoculating a couple of tanks, taking care of a couple of tartrate additions, setting up a tank to drain for pressing tomorrow, and adding some yeast nutrients to some already fermenting tanks (this helps the yeasts do a better job).
But the fun part of the morning was doing the daily tank samples. No not me sampling the wine (although I did anyways!) but preparing bottles of each tank to send to the lab at the main building for analysis. You can see my line up of bottles in the picture. This was not quite all the tanks.
I have been lucky as they have kind of taken me away from the sorting line and are trusting me to do some more technical things. I must be doing something right!
Richard, I am curious as to why you decided to go to CA for your internship rather than find a winery in the Midwest?
ReplyDeleteNonetheless the experiences will benefit your own winery when you return to NE.
Very exciting!
Brad