When you're quite finished!

Last week we finally called it quits on our last 2 fermenting tanks. 2 tanks of Riesling were still going, after 9 months of fermentation! We like to let the wines ferment as they will, so usually in the winter they'll slow down or stop, but instead of adding yeast to get them going again we'll just wait - and then without fail they'll kick up again in the spring. Maybe it's the spring moon or just the rising temperatures, but either way things kick up. So after putting together our various Rieslings from all the different tanks we decided these last 2 were ready to stop. Now they've joined their friends in going through cold stabilization. Which I have to say is like natural air conditioning for the winery in these hot temperatures.