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Wine Making @ Crushpad (http://www.crushpadwine.com)

The Sounds of Science

Every two weeks, samples are pulled for Lab Manager, Cindy Cosco, to analyze. Cindy checks each barrel sample for pH, TA, alcohol and sulfur dioxide levels.

It's important to maintain consistent SO2 levels throughout the life of a wine to prevent bacterial spoilage and oxidation. Although we use very low levels of sulfur dioxide (25 parts per million), without it, the wine would typically oxidize and/or be attacked by microbes and have difficulty aging more than a year or two.

City Slickers Shake Hands with Blooming Mustard

 

Mustard is flowering at our new Silverado Trail location. The pastoral digs among the vines rejuvenates the soul. (Boots required). 

If you fret spiders and snakes, don't sweat, we've got mountains of stainless steel and plenty of big kid toys with which to play. 

Winemakers Second: Dry ice

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Winemakers Second: Variable ripeness in mountain vineyards

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Kicking off Crushpad Bordeaux Harvest 2009 with the Lepmets from Estonia

Sorting the First Red Grapes of the 2009 Season

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Forget Snow Leopard OS, We've Got Snow Leopard Wine

Snow Leopards are fantastically cool.  And if you're reading the Crushpad blog we know you think wine is cool.  With all due respect to what I'm sure is a fabulous operating system from Apple, OSs are not that cool.  Now you can help save Snow Leopards and drink some smoking stuff with Snow Leopard The Wine, (actually called Long Tail)

The Snow Leopard Conservancy recently launched their own wine store through Crushpad's new Fusebox Fundraising program.  With the program, non-profits can easily create their own unique wines using materials that normally go into commercial bottles that sell for up to $75.  Organizations can participate in the program with zero up front investment, and virtually no risk or minimum commitments.  They choose from over 30 Fusebox blending components to create their own custom wine or select a wine that has been pre-blended by our winemaking team.  Organizations can either design their own label online with our easy-to-use online label designer or work with a Crushpad designer to create their packaging.  We build a storefront for the non-profit (like this one) and handle all of the sales, shipping and legalities.  All the organizations have to do is promote the wine to their constituents.  Participating groups can make anywhere between $2-$200 per bottle sold depending on the type of wine they create and abilities of their donors.

If you're interested raising some moolah for your cause contact Pamela Topper at pamela@crushpadwine.com


     
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