Chardonnay is at SG 1.00, time to rack! Smells yummy! You can see the bits of the oak chips that were added in the primary. Some did make it through the racking cane into the secondary, but it should be OK — they’ll fall out over time (I assume).
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I have discovered that the wine kit companies make special limited edition wines every year that are supposed to be “exceptional quality.” I’ve been pretty impressed with the quality so far, so these should be really exciting! Here’s what I got: Pacific Quartet: A blend of very cool whites from the Pacific, including Vidal from […]
Looking over the inventory and considering the wines we often drink, I invested in an Australian Chardonnay kit. This one has oak – 120 g toasted French oak total — so should be interesting. They recommend aging 1 – 3 months, peak aging 1 – 2 years.
Well, it’s *supposed* to be an easy-drinking red table wine, anyway. The Winexpert “Bourgeron Rouge” (AKA red burgundy) is started, I’m very curious how this one will turn out. I assume this is basically pinot noir, although it’s difficult to find out much detail about some of these kits.
Let this wine sit a *little* more than 7 days, just didn’t get around to it. The benefit is that the wine cleared nicely and does not need to be filtered! Got fast seal tool for shrink caps now, much easier! First bottle just after bottling, not bad at all. Very fruity nose with apples […]
After doing more research on the various types of wine kits, and being so happy and impressed with the “low end” chamblaise kit (which we’re plowing through), I invested in a second chamblaise kit as well as winexpert’s “Bourgeron rouge” red burgundy kit. The latter should be another quick-drinker requiring just a few months aging […]
To try to cheer myself up after the filtering debaucle, I broke out a bottle of my first wine – it’s one month old today! There is a little weird soapiness on the nose, and the wine is actually quite fizzy, too. I decanted for a while and tasted in Spiegelau cabernet glass. Some fruit […]
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 […]
After some research about wine NOT clearing like it’s supposed to, I have come to the conclusion that I will have to filter this wine. I put in my order for a VinBrite gravity filter. Hopefully it will do the trick.
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!