If this is work, then put me in coach. Wow, what a day we had on Thursday. Arriving at dawn is always pretty cool (especially with a full moon still shining bright) and it was no different on this day. In fact, I must admit that while I consider myself a loyal Freeman Winery guy, I was just a little bit more pumped than usual since we were putting the '08 Fones Zin and '08 Fones Keefer Pinot Noir (lol - fyi - there is no Fones Winery - it's just easy - and fun - to call it that) in barrel. After the free run juice from the t-bins went to barrel, the remaining juice and skins went to the press and then was barreled down. It all went smoothly and we got great yields from both the zin and the Keefer PN. Between me and Amelle (Eric and Ryan's label), we got 3 barrels of the Keefer PN (1 new - 1 one year old - and 1 two year old barrels) and 4 barrels (all neutral) and 3 carboys of the zin. I can't remember if I already mentioned it, but we got less zin than we were expecting from the vineyard this year. I was hoping to get a ton of fruit - wound up getting about a 1/2 ton. We all got less than we were hoping for but that's a long story. Bottom line is it looks like about the same amount of '08 zin as in '07 - around 24-25 cases. It will be fun to compare the two vintages as they develop.
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