In making this wine, I became obsessed with keeping oxygen out of the wine. Watching my hubby make beer, he would often purge the carboys with CO2 or nitrogen gas before racking into them to reduce oxygen exposure; I rationalized that this should also be good practice for winemaking. However, after I started incorporating this […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Happily the wine was very clear at the last racking, so I was confident that it was fine to bottle after 2 more weeks. I had added extra Kmeta (potassium metabisulphite) for long-term aging when it was racked previously. There was a little layer of goop in the bottom, so I opted to rack the […]