Mendocino Ridge is a discontinuous AVA of ridge tops between Anderson Valley and the Pacific Ocean. Its for real, but very little vineyard plantings. Good find. I'd have a hard time coming by it and I live 2 hours away.
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Alex Foillard -- son following in his father's footsteps. Strong showing in his first cuvee -- but from what I read the 2018 vintage is pretty money across Beaujolais.
Silky, nice concentration. No brett in this bottle, but still nice earthiness and herbals. If you dig gamay, a decent pickup for ~$20. Little BBQ action with is as our summer garden fades after the first snow.
Silky, nice concentration. No brett in this bottle, but still nice earthiness and herbals. If you dig gamay, a decent pickup for ~$20. Little BBQ action with is as our summer garden fades after the first snow.
Hmmm....at least it's a smaller flask......water skis??
The water skis are an odd story involving no wine but plenty of beer.
And that's why they are waaaaay over there?
And Erlenmeyers are far easier to wash out than decanters.
Hadn't though about that. Might fit in the dishwasher...Or at least they did fit in my Hobart at the lab.
Erlenmeyer, that's a name I have not heard since college.
Very easy to swirl too.
Evaporation Flask Apollo Low Profile With 29/42 Joint 1000ml Capacity
DESIGN---This evapoaration flask is designed with low profile to sits upright on bench and also provides for easy product access with a spatula.This unique flask shape is ideal for controlling evaporation of foaming solvents on a rotary evaporator.WIDELY USED----The low profile evaporation flask...
If you have black widows in your area, they LOVE to live on the bottom of those. I once killed 19 on the bottom of one barrel! If you block them up off the ground it helps.
I used to work for a food manufacturer that brought in rum and brandy (along with salt) in barrels. They then sold off the barrels to employees. I managed one year to get one. Sawed it in 1/2 and made planters out of them. Best damn tomatoes ever....
Propane hidden. Mums planted. Now to build a stone fire pit to hold the portable camp stove. Thus far this patio is entirely re-used materials except the planter boxes, pillows and wood to build the frame built for the swing. Need to luck into a few more free skis to build a couple chairs to use the wine barrel as a side table. May break down and actually buy a couch.
The way we've got one setup that we can quickly pack up the fire pit and throw in the van for camping.
And damn does the inside of the barrel smell nice.
The way we've got one setup that we can quickly pack up the fire pit and throw in the van for camping.
And damn does the inside of the barrel smell nice.
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Do you know the story about Carmenere? The Chileans have had it for donkey's years and thought it was Merlot. Then in 1994 some French viniculturalists came along and did a DNA test on it, and announced that it was Carmenere, a pre-phylloxera wine that had been thought to have been lost ... a fun-ish fact while you slot it back!
Although it has been a while since I have had a Carmaenere. It is one of the reds I do enjoy. A employee of Total Wine was the first to introduce it to me. My brother in law that makes a fair amount of wine has made it and it turned out very good. Maybe I should get a few bottles and reacquaint myself with it.
Adding: The French who identified Carmenere were ampelographers--an old art of identifying grape varieties by physical characteristics. Leaf shape, hirsutism, bunch shape and characteristics, etc. I do believe it has since been confirmed by DNA as well. But ampelography is alive and well. I wrote many pages back about an ampelographer who identified a 120 yr old vineyard as Cinsault. This saved it from being sold to Gallo as "red" for $175/ton. The vineyard only yields about 1.5 tons/acre at this age. Now it goes into a mid market varietal planting (Michael David I think) and probably sells for $1500/ton or so. The vineyard owner was going to replant to Chardonnay. Now it is known as one of the most distinct "ancient vines" vineyards in CA.
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Tell us about nanobubble practices/experimentation?
In the context of the barrel thread drift, I was also wondering how much cellulose acidification actually happens; I suppose methanogenic bacteria are relatively tightly controlled?
In the context of the barrel thread drift, I was also wondering how much cellulose acidification actually happens; I suppose methanogenic bacteria are relatively tightly controlled?
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