Just curious, do you or did you get fruit flies from pressing the grapes yourself?
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Oh yes, You'll have more fruit flies then there are hookers at a Shriners Convention. Keep everything outside, far from the door.
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Thanks for the update, I'd forgotten how much time had passed. I would love to drop by for a tasting, but spare time is rare right now. My instinctive reaction would be to blend them, but I will bow to the opinions of those who do the tasting.
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I'm like a chocoholic, but for booze.
I'm not a Shriner either. (Unwilling to join any group that would have someone like me as a member...)
The next time that would work for me to have anyone come by to try the wine would be the weekend after next. (The 20th) I'm not talking a party, because I do have stuff planned that weekend but if anyone wanted to drop by we could pick a time and do it then. Let me know if that will work for people and we'll make a date.
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I had saved a few grape plastic containers form the de-stemming session, and looked up the area of production, the Chilean Curico district: (wikepedia link)
The box actually specifies the township as Sagrada Familia, within Curico
Interesting climate.
EDIT: It looks like the district is part of the Maule region, central valley, affected by the quake, as epicenter was located at its southern border, according to N.Y.Times map:
"The Maule region... was the area most affected by the earthquake, with more than 580 deaths. A state of emergency was declared and an army general was put in charge of the region."
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You primates are so predictable.
Last edited by beergears; 03-12-2010 at 08:14 PM.
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Well guys, since no-one semed to want to buy more Chilean grapes this spring it looks like we're going to have to wait till the fall to bottle. I'm not able to buy the grapes myself to re-fill the barrels this spring, I've got too many other irons in the fire. (As we talked about before, leaving expensive oak barrels empty for a long period of time is a prescription for disaster. Since I don't want to ruin my barrels I'm not gonna do that, so they can just sit there an hold the wine till the fall.) It is probably just as well, given the recent disaster in Chile I've read that the area vineyards are scrambling to just be able to take care of their own needs. I don't think their infrastructure is capable of exporting perishable crops at the moment. So I'm just going to plan on sitting on the wine till the fall harvest. I will definately be buying grapes then, and if you guys want to do a repeat group thing then I'll be game for that.
PTN
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FYI, the guy who runs my local HBS (who also has a couple locations in eastern MA) gets fresh grape juice direct from one of the vineyards in the Finger Lakes. You might want to talk to him; I'm pretty sure he drives up himself and picks up the juice in fermenation buckets. Kinda neat to do something with local product, you know?
i know i'm jumping in late here. but also consider in the summer michigan tart cherries from the traverse city region(look at your hand and where the pinky meets the ring finger is its location). don't forget the vineyards all over the west side of the state, you can do the same thing as ptn did in the fingers lakes. i seem to recall that a couple sold fresh juice (maybe st julians?)
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