First Harvest Chenin Blanc Update

Yesterday, we moved our first harvested Chenin Blanc that I blogged about as Harvesting Organza Wedding Bags on September 19th, into the holding tank. This is a tricky task that calls for trying to minimize oxygen exposure as much as possible. The first thing we (invoking the royal "we", my husband did everything) did was to sterilize the holding keg and then flush the keg with nitrogen. The next thing that we did was to fit the keg with the fermented juice with a racking wand. The final thing was to hook up the nitrogen gas to the fitting on the keg with the juice.
Here is a YouTube Video of the nitrogen assisted transfer of the wine from one keg to another:

We saved a little of the wine to do some tests:
pH = 3.09
TA = 6.6 g/L
The fermentation began on September 27 and lasted until October 22. The fermentation went to dryness. We did taste the wine:

This year's verdict: It's not tasting searingly acidic like last year's wine, that my husband likes to refer to as jet fuel. It already had a nice floral aroma coming from the glass (imho).