Crush Update: Week 3
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Jon Bjork
White grapes now being crushed in Lodi
The first part of the crush season is devoted to higher-acid white wine variety grapes, along with some Zin to be made into good old White Zin.
Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:59 am
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Updated: 11:26 am, Tue Sep 7, 2010.
Crush Update: Week 3
Lodi's 2010 crush stepped into higher gear last week as many
white wine varieties sugared-up and flavored-up enough for
picking.
While I'm sitting out another year from crushing for our own
winery, Pantheon Cellars (we're putting all our money
into bottling with none left for grapes), I'll be collecting
reports to share from many Lodi winegrowers and wineries via my
Facebook group: Group.LodiWineGuy.com.
Not wanting to completely miss the action, I'll be embedded in
the grape-stained frontlines over at one of my clients, Borra
Vineyards throughout crush. You'll be able to read all the
nitty-gritty details at BorraVineyards.BlogSpot.com.
The first couple of weeks of harvest 2010 saw mostly higher-acid
Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay being picked by Woodbridge for sparkling wine and by Bokisch for one of the many vineyards Liz and Markus
manage. Bokisch also brought in their own authentic-Spanish-style
Terra Alta Vineyard Albariño.
Last week more Albariño came in, this time from the Bokisch's
backyard Las Cerezas Vineyard and from Harney Lane. Pinot Grigio went to WildRose, Woodbridge (from Joe Cotta),
Dancing Coyote and Ripken, while
Chardonnay was crushed at Ripken and Van Ruiten, starting with their Home Ranch.
Rounding out the week were Mokelumne
Glen Gewürztraminer, Vicarmont
Sauvignon blanc, and the very first of the reds - a few tons of
Zinfandel to be bin-fermented at Fields
Family in association with the omnipresent guys from TheVinoLife.com.
Meanwhile, back at Borra, about 36 barrels were emptied into Mobile Wine Line's
bottling truck to make room for the 2010 crop, which will be taking
its merry time to ripen during this upcoming cool week of temps in
the upper-70's and low-80's.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:59 am.
Updated: 11:26 am.
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Marty Weybret posted at 7:34 am on Thu, Sep 9, 2010.
As the unscramble the answer to today's (Thursday, Sept. 9's) Jumble, I thought of all us wine drinkers. Jon, your readers will get a chuckle out of the pun and receive a word to the wise. Jumble runs daily in the classified ads of the Lodi News-Sentinel. Cheers!