The reds plan is Pinot, Shiraz, Tannat,
Tempranillo and Chambourcin and maybe Cabernet Sauvignon if it is available. The only experiment this time will be to cold macerate for 3 days
where normally it only gets chilled down to 10 C overnight. If the
fruit is good quality about 10-20% whole bunches will be included and
usually about 10% of the juice is bled off to increase the skin to
juice ratio and the extracted juice used for Rose. The fermentation
temperatures will be higher 27-32 C and once it gets down to about
one third sugar I'll put on an airlock and leave it to get a minimum
of 22 days with skin contact. Finally press and add 3gms/l of French
Oak chips and 3gms/l of American Oak chips and see what happens. We
haven't been racking in recent years just bottling in November
/December but its time to get back to racking this vintage and see what
effect it has on the flavour.
But back to reality at HHF. The lawns received some attention ahead of the predicated hot weather for the coming week. A batch of Lowenbrau beer was bottled and a batch of Guinness kicked off. Weeding continued and we even managed a few laps in the pool. Being a fast day we started dinner early as we were starving. Just a selection of cheeses with sliced zucchini and sliced Tropical Apple followed by a grilled Eggplant and Tomato stack with left over vitello tonnato sauce and finally the pizza using the sour dough base. We made two pizzas using as many ingredients out of the garden as possible and some anchovies on one and sardines on another. They looked like pizza stacks. Oh and a glass or two of 2011 HHF Shiraz.
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| Grilled Eggplant and Tomato stack |
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| Not much left |
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