Volume 74 Item 05: Sir William Macarthur memoranda regarding vintage, 1848: No. 15

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Monday 6th March
                                              Verdeilhoº

                      ½ of 4th load  }
                              5      "     } average nearly 1108. in Large Cask No 1 with head out.
                              6      "     }

March 7th added about 20 gals fresh beginning to work up with thick viscous head & large bubbles added 7 gals B - at noon temp 74º added 10 gals B (total 17) at 7 P.M. working up more strongly temp 80º added 7 gals B. (total 24)

March 8th Working strongly with thick rocky head temp 82º at noon working very strongly with rough rocky head temp 86º - at 5 P.M. head no longer rocky temp 86º

March 9th 8 a.m. fermentation subsiding, head absorbed sp grav. 1039º  temp 88º

March 10th working slowly head absorbed                                      10327  temp 88º

March 11th at noon slight effervescence                                          1019º  temp 84º
racked off as follows vitz 
to No 1 cask of M. in cellar to fill up about 70 gals
to No 3 cask in cellar to fill up about         120 
to No 1 Ripe upstairs                                112
Hogshead not full say                                 48
​​​​​​​                                                                 350 gals