The rewards and frustrations of home winemaking

Daily archive: 11 10 2008

Malolactic Fermentation on Merlot

Something interesting happened, the 6 gallon carboy of lot B merlot blew its top overnight.ย  I thought it was done fermenting โ€ฆ. oh well.ย  Iโ€™m sure itโ€™ll be fine.ย  A lot of solids also fell out overnight, so I racked them both into clean carboys.ย  Each carboy got a dose of White Labs malolactic bacteria […]