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Mission Grapes

My diary as a new assistant winemaker at AP VIN, an urban winery in San Francisco.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

First Press

Today we are pressing our first grapes. The press is a SK Group PSP16 1600 liter bladder press. We are pressing about 3/4 ton of Keefer 777. It was innoculated with D254 on October 3. It is reading -0.4 brix.
Posted by Mark Schulman at 2:04 PM

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Blog Archive

  • ►  2007 (2)
    • ►  March (2)
  • ▼  2006 (65)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ▼  October (40)
      • Our last crush of the harvest
      • This is wine making
      • Kanzler pick
      • Kanzler pick
      • Punching Down SF Style
      • Brenda cooling fruit with dry ice before crushing.
      • Fruit Ripeness and Brix
      • Brian Loring
      • Fermentation Update
      • Stuck fermentation issues
      • More on Measurements
      • We often have beautiful women hanging around
      • The boys
      • Donna Barber
      • Don Barber
      • Kelly Krueger adding S02 and enzymes to the must.
      • Even Dictators Love AP VIN
      • 1.6 tons of Turner today
      • Brenda punching down
      • Ed Kurtzman
      • Titratable Acidity vs pH
      • First Press
      • We filled this T-bin a little too high
      • When to bleed
      • Destemming
      • Maceration
      • Measurements
      • One day after innoculation
      • Adding yeast to the must.
      • Acclimating the yeast to the must
      • Yeast
      • Innoculation
      • Innoculation
      • Punch Downs
      • The numbers are in
      • Deciding when to harvest
      • Andrew and Gary Francioni
      • Andrew and Rosella Francioni
      • Gary's Vineyard
      • Sampling Grapes
    • ►  September (22)

My Favorite Wine Blogs

  • Celebrate Wine
  • Tom Wark's Fermentation
  • Vinography
  • West Coast Wine Net