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Monday, September 27, 2021

Bottling Our Wines at Jonathan Edwards Winery---Part 1

Last week, we spent from Monday to Friday at Jonathan Edwards Winery preparing to bottle and then bottling our wines. Compared to what Jonathan Edwards does, we have very small volumes so that presented somewhat of a logistical challenge. The first order of business on Monday was to get all of us on the same page with respect to moving the wine from our small vessels into one vessel in order to filter the wines as efficiently as possible, according to vintage and variety. Once we were all on the same page, we began executing the plan.
There was a lot of cleaning and sanitizing to do before the wines could be moved.
The wines that were racked into the larger containers were then filtered through a 1 micron filter and put into a santized vessel.
On Monday, we were able to get about 90% of our wines through this procedure. Since we had two vintages to process, the order in which we did the first filtration was: 2019 Auxerrois, 2020 Auxerrois, and 2020 Chardonnay, 2019 Chenin Blanc and half of our 2020 Chenin Blanc.
Time flies and also the filter becomes a little sluggish, so at the end of the day, we still had half of our 2020 Chenin Blanc to filter and our 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2019 Cabernet Franc to filter.
Sticking to the plan allowed us to maximize the time on Monday. We left the winery feeling exhuasted but excited about what tomorrow would bring.

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