"Angel's share"

06/04/2009 post by: Aaron Inman

Now that summer he must pay his head around the Napa Valley, a popular part of the basement becomes even more Winery. Since we do lots of tasty barrel here at August Briggs, many visitors come to explore the winery cellar and ask questions. Those questions are what prompted this blog.One of the first questions, for most people, the temperature inside the cellar is everyone's cool weather and more than 90 + degrees outside, cooler, compared to 75 air-conditioned room tasting degrees.

The cellar at August Briggs is kept at 60 ° c, with about 70% humidity. This is a natural tendency to wonder why this temperature and humidity? The answer lies in an aging wine barrels of oak.White oak barrels are ??????? and evaporation occur. higher temperatures, lower humidity accelerate the aging process, increase the rate of evaporation. On the other hand, if the temperature is too low, the humidity is too high, develop other problems.

Evaporation of wine from the barrel oak can be significant, between 3-6 litres per year, according to the cellar. This produces more evaporation concentrated flavors, fragrances, but also exposes wine oxidation and spoilage.Curb these problems, we lead headspace created by steaming with wine that we have to keep aside specifically for this purpose.

One day I was explaining the reasons for our cellar temperature, and a guest to the phrase "Angel's share", referring to the wine evaporated.Had never heard this before, but Lingo. be, I picked up my nerd it online, Spanish ministers are discovered ???????? credited with coining the phrase "of winemaking is an Angel." getting better every year, scientific reason good. Nevertheless, it is refreshing to be traditional explanations. things that you won't have to explain away all scientific Lingo.

We, August Briggs, extending an invitation to Winery welcome to come and visit us in Calistoga this summer and get the part of the "Angel's share"!