Since Dave has already drunk half of his bottled wine, I asked if he had any acetone problems, and he said no. So, I checked one of the small bottles of extra merlot, and was very happy that there was no acetone odor or taste there. OK, then something happened to the carboy. I checked […]
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I used a 5 micron inline filter to bottle the Argentinian Trio today, and I noticed that the last 2 bottles had paper floating in them! Total bummer. I’m not sure if I didn’t set something up right, or what. Oh well, I’ll mark the corks on these and keep them for home consumption. The […]
With all of the carboys from the barrel wine plus the kit wines I have bulk aging, the wine has now overflowed out of the shower and into the guest room. Reservations are now required! The shower is also quite busy. We busted out a little sample of the merlot from the carboy, expecting it […]
I tossed the juice bag from the Riesling, but then thought I should go ahead and send an email to Winexpert to see if the precipitate is a bad sign, or no big deal. I have to say, I’ve been very happy with their customer service – they answered me the next day! Linda from […]
It was time to rack off the cabernet sauvignon kit into a carboy. I noticed a distinct aroma of bananas, just like we smelled when the cabernet sauvignon grapes were fermenting. The color is great, this is going to be a pretty decent wine for the money. Next I set up to start the Alsatian […]
We’ve been trying to get organized to bottle this wine for a while now, and we finally set a day and got it done. I brought my portion of the wine home in carboys and a few miscellaneous bottles. Dave and Josh wanted theirs bottled, so that’s what we did. Dave did a few blending […]
The SG on the Yakima Synergy is at 0.994, although it’s still bubbling away in there. After racking, it’s not very pretty! But, it’s early in the game, there’s still plenty of stirring ahead before it’s expected to clear. In the meantime, Dave bought a cabernet sauvignon kit last year, at the same time that […]
I’m pretty sure the MLB is not viable anyway, but I don’t want to risk exploding wine bottles, either. What we needed to do was treat our merlot with lysozyme. Lysozyme is an enzyme that will lyse the bacterial walls, which definitely completely destroys any bacteria that might still be hanging around. Chris Van Alyea […]
Time to bottle! I racked about half of carboy, then filtered the rest with my gravity filter and combined the wine before bottling – I was too impatient to wait for it to clear over an extended bulk aging. I really need to get an inline filter for the enolmatic, the gravity filter added an […]
This is my first Cellar Craft kit. I’m looking forward to this one for several reasons. I’ve read a lot of good things about Cellar Craft on winepress.us. Also, the description of this white blend sounds beyond yummy; it’s a blend of Marsanne and Roussanne from Yakima valley in Washington state, two lovely rhone whites. […]