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
It’s been 10 years between Vintages. Winemaking again has brought delight and pleasure, not just for me, for everyone involved in the project. The garage has been lit up with smiles, laughter, shared magnums of Filth, just a whole lot of fun!
By the time this post is published the wine will be resting safely in barrel, to begin it’s long journey to the bottle.
The Wine Decoded Bathtub Winemaking Project will return Next Year!
We’ve had so much fun playing with grapes and friends that we could resist doing it all again. If you’re interested in joining us, hit me up via the Contact Page and I’ll get in touch when we start preparing for more action in the garage!
Pressing is another chance to guide a wine.
How fast do you press?
How much pressure to you apply?
What machine do you use?
All of these factors can impact the extraction of particularly tannins from the skins and dramatically impact the texture of the final wine. Press too fast, too hard and you risk extracting bitter, hard tannins.
Taste is critical!
Wines separated into two basic components:
Free Run: The liquid you can drain out of the vat full of skins and seeds without doing any squashing.
Pressings: The liquid extracted by applying pressure to the grape skins using a press. Sometimes these are separated further into first and second pressings.
Throughout the pressing process we constantly taste the wine coming from the press. In the Yarra Valley the tannins tend to be pretty supple, particularly using a basket press. In general the pressings are mixed straight back into the free run. Ours went straight back in adding to the structure and texture of the wine & it’s overall yumminess!
In some regions tannins from pressings can be hard, sappy and bitter and need to be kept separate from the free run. Think McLaren Vale.
Vintage Lunch Went Back to Basics!
Fuel for the pressing of the Filthy Good Vino Bathtub Cabernet. Fish, chips, a dimmi & bottle of Chardonnay. Good Friday lunch break.
Another Ghetto Winemaking solution! Cable ties & duct tape are a winemaker’s best friends!
When G heard us saying the Cake looked amazing she assumed we meant birthday cake, not, cake from pressing the WINE DECODED Bathtub Winemaking Projects Cabernet. So we put a candle in it & sang happy birthday …. 4 times!
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