Friday, February 11th, 2011...2:02 am
Pressing the Pinot Noir
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The Pinot Noir was finished working fast, it was all fermented by Wednesday evening and so I collected the girls from school and we raced back home to put the Pinot Noir into the press.
The pH is now at 3.5 and I have added a malolactic culture. We have a paltry 100 lts but it is GOOOOOD!
So here it goes out of the open fermentation tank and through the press.
Scooping out the very last of the must from the open fermentation tank.
And the juice is pouring through the press.
Pinot Noir going through the press.
And then into the stainless steel variable tank.
Chardonnay is next!
4 Comments
February 16th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
am impressed!
congratulation!
you can be an inspiration!
how long does it take for the first crop after planting
April 4th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Dear Louise,
I am a french studdent very interessed in East Africa and specially in the Turkana bassin. I would like to visit the center research in Ileret when I will come back to Ethiopia. I will be very glad to meet you and discover more about the area. Please can you contact me, I will give you more informations about my project. I really need your help.
Have a nice day! Thank you.
May 1st, 2011 at 5:53 am
dear Louise, so pleased to see, that you’re going on growing grapes and harvesting:-) - and that your amounts of grapes seem very much the same as in our place (you remember, your monkey are our wild boars and badgers…) - so small material is sufficient, to work on it.
Would be nice to exchange a bottle of Kenia Pinot with our Pinot from the South of France…
best regards
Iris
September 17th, 2011 at 5:03 am
Nice blog, you’re doing a true labour of love.
I wonder if you could help me with a address for one or two of the larger commercial wine makers in Kenya? I will visit the country in November and am interested in writing a story about Kenyan wine. And certainly drink some of it too
Greetings from Denmark
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