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The foregoing wine all fermented very gently the weather during the week having been an unusually cold rain cold on the 21st & 22nd
The Vat No 4 have racked off into casks on Tuesday 1st April. The gentle fermentation being barely sensible.
The three casks No 4 5 & 6 were about the same time racked off into six Hogsheads. The other three Nos 1, 2 & 3 being continued on their less.
The whole is highly vinous and promised to become a sound strong common wine it has on this day (4th April) no perceptible sweetness remaining.
Mem. The lus of the vat were owing to an oversight not repeatedly stirred up whilst the contents were being drawn off and as a consequence about 3 inches in thickness remained in the bottom of too thick a consistence to be run off.