This was a quote taken from another contributor that summarized thread after thread I have read:
"Based on multiple recommendations from this website I traditionally rack my aging Reds every 3 months and add up to a quarter teaspoon of KMeta at each racking. After 1 year of bulk aging in the car boy I will bottle and let age anywhere from 3 months to 1 more year. so far this has worked for me"
This advise makes no sense to me. Why in a large bottle (carboy) do you rack over and over exposing to oxygen adding Kmeta over and over to try to mitigate the Oxidation vs just bottling it immediately and calling it good?
If it was an oak barrel and micro oxygenation was part of the conversation I could see the argument but I'm lost with the carboys...
"Based on multiple recommendations from this website I traditionally rack my aging Reds every 3 months and add up to a quarter teaspoon of KMeta at each racking. After 1 year of bulk aging in the car boy I will bottle and let age anywhere from 3 months to 1 more year. so far this has worked for me"
This advise makes no sense to me. Why in a large bottle (carboy) do you rack over and over exposing to oxygen adding Kmeta over and over to try to mitigate the Oxidation vs just bottling it immediately and calling it good?
If it was an oak barrel and micro oxygenation was part of the conversation I could see the argument but I'm lost with the carboys...