Wind Gap has landed, but what is a "Concrete Egg?"

WINE TALK
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I love shipping season. Today it was a box labeled “Do not deliver to an intoxicated person.” Inside were 4 bottles of Pax, oops, I mean Wind Gap, James Berry Chardonnay (12.25% ABV for those of you who wonder whether Pax Mahle has gone over to the dark side) and 2 bottles of Sceales Vineyard Old-Vine Grenache (13.75% ABV). Pax lists the production on the side of the label, and the Grenache says, “1 Concrete Egg/408 cases bottled.” The chardonnay says “11 barrels/265 cases bottled.” That’s a pretty big egg, at roughly 16 barrels per egg. What laid that egg? An ostrich on steroids? A pterodactyl?

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. newhere

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Whatever it was, I’d wager it’s a bird you don’t want to mess with.

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It’s a kind of fermenting vessel, usually much smaller than the stainless steel tanks people use.

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They were really expensive, but they are supposed to promote “minerality” or stony-ness in Chardonnay. . . sorry, I missed the joke. newhere

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“Win Gap” is the number wins minus the number loss. Typically -10 for the Jets.

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