A few notes on the latest wines. It is a little early for most of them, but you don’t know how they’re developing without tasting! Australian Chardonnay: A little soon after bottling to taste, but I couldn’t help myself. Still too young, but nice. Buttery nose, lots of heavy oak in the attack and flavors [...]
Tag archive: chamblaise
The vinbrite gravity filtering unit is a little intimidating. It’s easy to put together, then I ran some water through the siphon plus filter unit, then set it up to filter the wine. It doesn’t sit in the top of the carboy very stably, so I did hold on to it for most of the [...]
I’m a bit annoyed at the chamblaise, there’s all sorts of *stuff* stuck to the side of the carboy, and it’s getting carried over when I rack the wine. It sat long enough, I’ll look into problems with clearing and try to figure out what to do about it. No bottling today!
The Chamblaise is at SG 0.996 today, ready to rack out of the primary fermentation bucket and into a carboy for secondary fermentation. The wine won’t get topped up yet, I’ll leave some space on top so that I can stir in the stabilizing and clearing agents in about 2 weeks.