There's nothing going on in the vineyard, aside from cover crop getting going (currently clover is flowering, vetch is just starting to grow). We're going to wait until March to do any pruning, wouldn't want to encourage growth too early.We did however decide to rack: we started with one of our 08s that had a little too much cloudiness on top. Then after a quick Web search we realized that now would also be a good time to rack the 09s. So out with the syphon and clean carboy to start transferring carboy to carboy. Also added Medium-Toast American Oak beans - roughly 0.75 oz per gallon (we think this worked out to about 10 beans per gallon).
