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This year we made 400 litres of Cab Sav, 200 litres or Merlot and 180 litres of a Cab Sav/Merlot blend.
We’re expecting something special from the Merlot especially this year.
200 litres of cab sav has gone through our “cold press” process, where we slow down the fermentation process so we get a full bodied wine.
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Andrea (Porphyry guru) joins the 4B team. Dino sadly bows out after 3 good years.
1 Rob said this (April 18, 2010 at 11:49 am)
(Michael’s comments from Crush day 2010)
Great day today
Each year we get better
This year one step back with Andrea but it should still be good 😉
2010 cab sav grapes looked mouldy at bottom of each box
Clamped destemer and worked great … Need another clamp
Merlot … Wow extra heavy and looks like a ton of juice
Cold press will sit until Thursday night
Well done guys!
2 Michael said this (April 25, 2010 at 5:11 am)
We will look into buying corks in bulk, works out to about half the cost of buying 500 at a time.
3 Rob said this (April 25, 2010 at 7:25 am)
It’s about time for a 4B dinner. May be when we rack later this month or early next?
4 Rob said this (May 3, 2010 at 11:55 pm)
Can we put in an order?….mates rates? Or 5th baccala rates??
5 Princess said this (October 21, 2010 at 9:24 am)
Andrea, After Feb 26 2011 I will put you on the bulk-order-mates-rates list. You will need to be drinking much more after marrying Tony.
6 Rob said this (October 23, 2010 at 10:57 pm)
Met at the cellar to clean the lid of the cab-sav cold-press. A small amount of wine had flowed out of the lid’s valve and grew some beautiful velvety mould. The wine was untouched and clear as the wind-driven snow.
The taste is lovely too.
7 Rob said this (October 23, 2010 at 11:02 pm)
We’re aiming to do the last racking in late November.
8 Rob said this (October 23, 2010 at 11:03 pm)
past the muffa scare… we are set for a great vintage..
9 Andrea said this (November 10, 2010 at 1:04 pm)
I can tell you it was such a relief to see that the wine was totally unaffected. 200 litres makes a lot of vinegar and grappa 🙂
10 Rob said this (November 10, 2010 at 8:47 pm)
Rocky, Michael and Rob (Andrea another commitment) racked this year’s wine for the last night. This is the last racking for this year.
There was only small amounts of sediment, the wine was very clear. They all passed the taste test. The Merlot especially is a cracker.
We’ll be bottling around February.
Thanks Claire, Maria and Lina for putting together the platters. They went down well with a bottle of 2008 Mataro (yes, Mataro!!).
Rocky mentioned we may try some Cab Sav grapes from Yarra Glen for next year’s batch.
Rob is going to follow-up on colour labels and dinner dates for next year.
Michael is following up a stainless steel hose attachment “J” device to help with racking.
11 Rob said this (December 1, 2010 at 9:14 pm)
Hi Guys sorry I could not make it… I hear is all under control, Yarra Glen CabSav sounds good… we might be able to get some pinot noir from Seville?? in theme with the yarra valley flavour..
best
12 Andrea said this (December 2, 2010 at 5:19 am)
Polished-off a bottle of 2009 Merlot with Osso Bucco – yum!
13 rob said this (February 6, 2011 at 2:00 am)
Rob has to win the BOTY (Baccala of the Year) award for screwing up the break-up of this year’s wine.
I recorded that Michael gets 10% … I mistakenly put a “0” after the “1” 🙂
All good now.
14 rob said this (March 10, 2011 at 10:17 am)
We bottled the cab sav, merlot and cab merlot.
I enjoyed the bottling while I was at the Chemical Brothers show. 🙂
We’ll do the cab sav cold press next week. Need to buy more bottles.
15 rob said this (March 10, 2011 at 10:17 am)
Bottled the last tank of 2010 vintage – the cab sav cold press.
Purchased the bits and pieces for this year’s wine. Cellarplus in epping have all the ingredients in a kit – trying that out this year.
All set to go to crush this Saturday!
16 Rob said this (March 24, 2011 at 2:25 pm)