Volume 74 Item 05: Sir William Macarthur memoranda regarding vintage, 1848: No. 19

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Monday March 13th recommended gathering weather quite fine until past noon when clouded over very sultry at 4 P.M. thunder storm succeeded by rain more or less heavy until late in the night -

Verdielho a little injured by rain - put to commence fermenting in open pipes & puncheons

No 1 about 90 gals 1108 - added at once 5 gals making 1138o. M Brandy (1846) commenced working almost immediately & continued gently all the rest of the day & all the 14th - worked up during night with thick & rough but not rocky head

March 15th worked strongly all day at 5 P.M. temp 88o

March 16th subsiding, head absorbed tem. 88o at 4 P.M. racked off into small pipe to make room for garden sequas  - & numbered M. No 2 fermenting briskly at bung - 

March 17th working briskly at bung

March 20th working greatly Sp grav 1001½ : 72

Added to No 7  {  No 2    "     80          1107    "   4 gals new B 14 C.P. }
                        {    "   3    "     80          1107        4   "       Do      Do      }

Added to No 8  {       4    "      80          1106                             5 New B
except about    {        5 Pipe  95          1106 partly sucrets       5 New B
15 gals of No 5

March 14th added remainder of No 5 to large cask with both heads in

                                  6   "       95         1103            Do             6 New B

March 14th added this cask to large cask put to work with both heads in -

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