2025 Chardonnel
updated 09/14/2025
September 2025
Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard, crushed 120 lbs Chardonnel, 210 lbs Baco Noir, 25 lbs Marechal Foch, and 25 lbs Leon Millot.
This wine is 80 lbs of this year’s Chardonnel and 40 lbs of 2024 Chardonnel that was frozen. This will not affect quality.
Ingredients
| Fruit | 120 lbs Chardonnel |
| Maceration Enzyme | 1.5 ml ScottZyme Cinn-Free |
| Nutrient | 15 g FermAid-O 4 tsp Fermax + DAP, divided |
| Yeast | 5 tsp 71B |
| Starter | 15 g Go-Ferm Sterol Flash |
| K-meta | as required |
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Method
| Crushed the grapes. Did not check brix or SG. As noted, this is a mixture of this year’s grapes and last year’s. | 10/13/2025 SG — |
| Added 15 g Fermaid-O nutrient and Cinn-Free. Made starter with 5 tsp Avante and 15 g Go-Ferm.
We are trying Go-Ferm Sterol Flash this year, which calls for hydrating the yeast with the Go-Ferm for 15 minutes, then inoculating. |
10/14/2025 SG 1.088 |
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Notes
| Yield | ?? bottles |
| Alcohol | ??.?% ABV |
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