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<div>This week in the Cellar, we're all thrilled to be able to take a deep breath this Friday!&nbsp; It has been a busy (but successful!) week and, believe it or not, this plywood box is the end result.<br>
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<div>What are we so excited about?&nbsp; Sekt!&nbsp; Or, to be more precise, the bottling of our 2019 Sekt.&nbsp; Sekt is a term in the Germanic wine world for sparkling wine, and in our case it describes the traditional method sparkling Riesling that we make each year from Tango Oaks Vineyard.&nbsp; And what does traditional method mean?&nbsp; It means that the second fermentation, the one that will give the wine its sparkle, is very carefully done in the bottles themselves.</div>
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<div>Some of our more ardent fans may be wondering, if we make this every year, why haven't they seen any yet?&nbsp; This wooden crate holds the answer - we're still aging every version we've made since 2015 on the yeast lees inside the bottles.&nbsp; This process, while time consuming, will deepen and broaden the wine considerably before we clean it up for release.&nbsp; Due to the pressure in the bottles - six times pressure at sea level! - we store them in a container where any weak bottles that shatter won't cause any harm.<p></p>
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[caption id="attachment_5132" align="aligncenter" width="225"]<img class="wp-image-5132 size-medium" src="https://rednewt.com/wp1/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_3692-225x300.jpg" alt="Bottles in Crates" width="225" height="300"> Packed carefully and neatly![/caption]
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