A white and red packet of Lalvin Bourgovin RC212 wine yeast and a black and white packet of Go-Ferm Protect Evolution lay on a black stone counter.

Cleaned and sanitized wine making lab equipment lay on sheets of white paper towel, on a black stone counter top. Among them a blue and white PH meter, a graduated cylinder holding a hygrometer, and a curved glass wine thief.

2025 Pinot Cont..

Let's get the party started.

Temp: 70°
Sugar content: 24.1° Brix
PH: 3.42

Add yeast starter:
5g Lalvin Bourgovin RC212
6g Go-Ferm Protect Evolution
85ml warm water

I want this wine to be low intervention so I am not adding any sulfites.

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Top down view of an open white plastic bucket sitting on a concrete floor. The bucket is filled 3/4 full with dark purple frozen wine grapes.

A large glass jar, filled with dark purple grape must, sits on a black stone countertop. A clear plastic airlock protrudes from the center of the lid in the jar's large mouth.

2025 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Cont..

Grape must arrived mostly frozen. Allowed to "cold soak" for 7 days. This will extract more compounds from the grapes and ultimately help make the wine unique and interesting.

Racked to glass and raised temp for fermentation.

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