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I GOT WOOD! Prepping French Oak for the Bathtub Cabernet!

Fermentation is winding down & it’s time to get our oak barrels ready to fill.
There’s nothing quite like the smell of a new French oak barrel.

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IT IS HERE! The 2015 Wine Decoded ‘Bathtub’ Cabernet Has Officially Been Launched 🚀

Wine Decoded ‘Bathtub’ Yarra Valley Cabernet 2015

Cabernet Sauvignon | Yarra Valley, Australia

The Wait is Over … Our 1st Wine Decoded Wine is Here! This is Not Just a Wine! This is 27 years in the making! Finally it is here, the first wine to be released under my own label! Just a little bit excited 😉 Explore below for all the juice on making, the style & what's next! Thanks to all the friends the helped make this possible! Our Wine Decoded 'Bathtub' Cabernet is an elegant rendition, with a perfumed scent, layered with an earthiness, vibrant and fresh. The texture is th
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We’ll be running about a third of our wine to barrel for barrel fermentation. The barrel fermentation should give us some opulence and juiciness. We’ll combine the other ferments to give them a bit of post fermentation maceration. It’s all about layering different flavours and refining the texture / mouthfeel of the wine. I’ll explain everything in detail in my next post.

Left to Right: Prepping new oak for the WINE DECODED Bathtub Winemaking Project! Necking a mag of 2007 Vietti Perbacco to give us energy! Nothing like smelling new oak barrels! Barrel Ferment ticking away nicely! Through the Eye of the Barrel!

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