The Wine Knows

Greetings,

I thought I would start a post to get anyones juices flowing about whether they care that I bottled 11 cases of wine by myself this month. I actually calculated 10 cases, but had some leftovers ( exactly 2.5 gal ). I just bottled it as a 63% Syrah/33% Merlot.

I use recycled glass from previous drinkings. I wash the bottles in my stainless Bosch dishwasher, then before bottling soak in 5 Star food grade sanitizer.
I do a quick rinse, purge with N2 and fill.
Grab a cork out of SO2 solution and floor cap it.
Oh...I fill from cornelius kegs with N2.

So here is the breakdown.

2007 Cabernet Sauvingon
80% Cab / 20% Merlot 13.5% abv
American & French oak aged 2 months.
Columbia Valley
3 cases
Sensory Eval ( Note- less than a month in bottle):
This bad boy had got to be the best wine I have made as an ameture..as it stands very green. There is a strong distinctive cab nose..the green peppery/bell pepper hints. Then the new barrel toast comes in with lots of fruit forward aromas. The mouthfeel is alcoholic and medium body...could be a little more acidic...but the light tannins help out. The flavor is fruit, toasted bread and some chocolate.

2007 Syrah
80% Syrah/ 20% Merlot 14% abv American & French oak aged.
Columbia Valley
3 cases
Sensory Eval ( Note- less than a month in bottle):
Again one of the better wines I have made as an ameture..as it stands very green.
This wine has a very strong fruit nose, but a much weaker barrel toast nose, but stronger american oak vanilla nose. This may come out more later in time. The body is medium-full with stronger alcohol warming than the cab. Same tannin levels as the cab as well. The flavor has lots of chocolate and fruit with some dark fruit (raisin) notes at the end. And just a hint of the bready barrel roast.

2007 Syrah / Cab Blend ( 50% of each of the above )
50% Syrah (from above lot)/ 50% Cab (from above lot)
approx 14% abv American & French oak aged.
Columbia Valley
4 cases
Sensory Eval ( Note- less than a month in bottle):
This is pretty much a sensory blen of the above two tasting notes. The cab notes are subdued a bit, but pretty much has the same flavor and aroma profile. However, the body and mouthfeel is quite nice and balanced.

2007 Syrah / Merlot Blend
63% Syrah/33% Merlot leftoevers.
1 case
This is not bad and it very drinkable. But I have not seriously evaluated it. I have been drinking this cases as my "indicator" lot.

I still have to put shrink caps on and slap some labels on, but thats it! I can not wait for October.

Thanx

Micah