• Malbec and Malbec Create a Respite Unlike Any Other

    Updated: 2009-10-19 16:00:31
    TITLE: Malbec and Malbec Create a Respite Unlike Any Other… Malbec and Malbec = Denis and May-Britt Malbec, the foremost wine making team, with a very unique background and amazing credentials. Respite = Respite Winery, the Alexander Valley, artisan treasure. Bringing the title together: I first met Malbec and Malbec at the recent Charles Reichel family’s brand launch party [...]

  • Michael Brill on Crushpad’s big new deal with Twitter

    Updated: 2009-10-19 08:10:36
    They’re already calling it “twine.” San Francisco-based Crushpad will make wine for Twitter, in a move (dubbed the Fledgling Initiative) to benefit the charity Room to Read. I talked with Brill, Crushpad’s president and CEO, last Friday. SH: How did the deal come about? MB: We have a couple Twitter employees who are customers of ours. They [...]

  • Let The Music Do The ‘Splainin’ ~ Eric O’Shea ~ TV Commercials

    Updated: 2009-10-18 16:00:08
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    Updated: 2009-10-17 21:56:19
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  • Hand Crafted Wines ~ David Fulton Winery ~ It Takes a Village to Raise a Petite Sirah

    Updated: 2009-10-17 16:00:13
    Image via Wikipedia Once a year, David Fulton Winery gathers their friends and family, and everyone comes along to hand sort their year’s harvest. This year, it happened on Saturday, October 3, 2o09. As one of my daughters watched this video, she asked, “People are actually willing to just jump in and do assembly line labor like [...]

  • Is this the future for wine bloggers? Having to police our own blogs from thieves

    Updated: 2009-10-15 16:00:55
    This week seems to have a barrage of people who have decided that the way for them to make a little extra money is to take a blog’s content through an RSS feed, and let that blog’s content make money for them through Google ads. Honestly, it takes a lot of click-throughs to make much money, [...]

  • 2009 Mendocino Zinfandel Arrives

    Updated: 2009-10-11 16:03:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Chez Ray Winemaking Trials , tribulations and . tips Sunday , October 11, 2009 2009 Mendocino Zinfandel Arrives This weekend , four crates of zinfandel grapes arrived from Lucchesi Vineyard from Potter Valley in Mendocino County , CA . They come from older vines on St . George root stock . They look to be in great shape , and are delicious fresh . They will comprise the Chez Ray Mendocino Zinfandel , 2009, vintage . Similar to the Lanza merlot , I will ferment in separate batches with different yeast in each , : accordingly Lalvin ICV-D254 Mendocino Zinfandel ZM9A Lalvin ICV-D80 Mendocino Zinfandel ZM9B Lalvin BM45 Mendocino Zinfandel ZM9C 1 comments : rob said . Yum Zin 9:53 AM Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Related Items Wine of the Month Club Wine Gift Baskets Loading . Interesting Places Lessons from the Future Jorray wine articles on Associated Content Spirit of Wine Trendinator Alltop Wine Fermentation Vinography Labels 2002 6 2003 13 2004 7 2005 34 2006 27 2007 14 2008 21 2009 2 berry 11 blend 12 botrytis 2 bottling 1 cabernet franc 3 cabernet sauvignon 17 corked wine 1 dessert 2 fruit fly 3 kit 3 malbec 1

  • Things to Remember When Home Brewing Beer

    Updated: 2009-10-08 07:47:00
    Home brewing beer can be very exciting and at the same very challenging. Yes, home brewing beer may take time and effort but once you really get the hang of it, you will have so much fun doing it that you will not really pay much attention to how much time and effort you put [...]

  • Home Brew Electronics: Be Careful When Doing It Yourself

    Updated: 2009-10-06 10:46:30
    Many people like to brew their own beer. They like to do this for many reasons. Some like to control the taste of their own homemade beer while others are looking to save money by making their own. Still, there are some who make their own beer because they enjoy the process and it gives [...]

  • Home Brewing: The Art of Making Your Own Beer

    Updated: 2009-10-05 12:16:15
    Beer drinking is very popular all over the world. In Germany where the oldest and the largest beer festival is celebrated in late September and the first week October, hundreds of home brewing enthusiast would troop into the city Munich. Home brewing competitions are one of the highlights of the beer festival. For many people [...]

  • Suisun Valley 2009 Grapes Arrive

    Updated: 2009-10-05 00:25:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Chez Ray Winemaking Trials , tribulations and . tips Sunday , October 04, 2009 Suisun Valley 2009 Grapes Arrive Grapes for the 2009 Chez Ray vintage arrived this weekend from Lanza Family Vineyards in the Suisun Valley , just southeast of Napa Valley , . CA Although I had plans to subject the entire 2009 vintage to Enoferm RP15 aka VQ15, VQ-15, or RP-15 yeast , the grapes arrived before my yeast . So my yeast and grape schedule was as : follows Lalvin ICV-D254 Lanza Merlot ML9A Lalvin ICV-D80 Lanza Merlot ML9B Lalvin BM45 Lanza Merlot ML9C Mixed : Lalvin D254, D80, BM45 Lanza Cabernet Sauvignon Rock Vineyards CL9 Lanza Cabernet Sauvignon Koch Vineyards CK9 Lanza Petite Syrah PSL9 I used Go-Ferm to reconstitute yeast , and built an approx half-gallon starter by adding crushed grapes during the course of a day . I'll get the ferment going at room temperature , then move to a cooler basement ferment after a couple of days . Basement fermentation proceeded at approximately 65 degrees . F 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Related Items Wine of the Month Club Wine Gift Baskets Loading . Interesting

  • WineMakingGuy just twittered: Posted 'Help My Wine Making! #5 Scott The Wine Making Guy' to blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/2679944.

    Updated: 2009-10-04 22:51:18
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  • Home Brew Shop: For All Your Home Brewing Needs

    Updated: 2009-10-03 15:15:45
    Home brewing your own beer, liquor or wine takes the proper equipment, the proper ingredients and it takes a special kind of attention to detail. The latter, only you can provide. The ingredients and equipment can be bought at a home brew shop. You can find home brew shops in most major cities as more [...]

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  • The Wave Of Beer?s Future? Home Brewing With Hydrogen Cells

    Updated: 2009-09-27 01:44:00
    Imagine if George Jetson had his own microbrewery; what would it be like? Would the look be sleek and space-like? How much better and fast could it would it operate? How about the mighty S.S. Enterprise? Can you just see Captain Kirk or Captain Picard enjoying a pint of their own [...]

  • Making A Large Home Brew: Things To Keep In Mind

    Updated: 2009-09-24 06:13:15
    If you already brew at home, whether that be beer, ice tea or coffee, for instance, then you obviously already know how the process goes. However typically people make smaller brews, and so if you are planning on making a large home brew, then there are several pointers that you are absolutely going to want [...]

  • WineMakingGuy just twittered: Posted 'Help My Wine Making! #4 Scott The Wine Making Guy' to blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/2639266.

    Updated: 2009-09-24 05:25:55
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  • The Purpose Of Home Brew Pots

    Updated: 2009-09-23 07:43:00
    For all of you coffee lovers out there, you may wonder what the purpose of having home brew pots is when you can just go out and buy a cup of coffee each morning. Well, there are several different answers of particular importance to this. For one, if you have home brew pots then you [...]

  • Why Buying Home Brew Supplies In Atlanta Is Such A Great Idea

    Updated: 2009-09-22 09:12:45
    You can really buy home brew supplies from anywhere in the world, however ? rather surprisingly enough ? one of the best places of all that you can buy your home brewing supplies from is Atlanta. The Reasons For This There are actually a number of different reasons for why it is best that you buy [...]

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