Barreca Vineyards

Barreca Vineyards

From Vine to Wine since 1986

Posts filed under Energy

Freeze Sweetening

Almost everyone likes sweet things, often to our detriment.  Nevertheless sugars are an important source of energy for people, animals and microbes.  In the wine-making business, the sugar content of grapes is key to whether a wine will be dry or sweet, also to how well it will keep.  The brix scale is a standard… (read more)

Down to Earth Heating

When I moved to Northeast Washington in 1974, temperatures got to be much colder during the winters than now, as much as -40° in Ferry County.  The past 20 years have been very mild by comparison (http://www.deanfarr.com/state_weather/).  So it may be with exaggerated fondness that I remember working in the Golden Valley Mine one winter. … (read more)