Volume 74 Item 04: Sir William Macarthur memoranda regarding vintages, 1845, 1846: No. 40

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Moderately cool with some showers -

17th 18th & 19th March - Verdialho grapes the same as last being for the most part very ripe with many of them dried up into raisons the last pressings invariably yielding the Vermouth first

Filled 3 of the 420 gals casks on these three days with enough in smaller casks to heap them full.
 

   
Each had boxes put in at the binge during their most violent formentation.