Daily Archives: December 15, 2003

It’s time for the rack!

It’s amazing how many parts of winemaking involve things that share names with medieval torture devices. Both grapes and witches get pressed, for example. And in some unsanitary dual-purpose world, I’m sure that racking wine means something other than using a siphon to move it from one carboy to another.
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Durable Snow

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Sunday morning we had the first really good snow of the season. About three inches of nicely packable stuff.