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We scoop the skins, pump the free run juice into the secondary, then dump the remaining dregs from the primary into the press. There is very little in the bottom of the primary because I mix/punch down twice daily.
Yes, after a couple of days I rack the wine off of the gross lees.
Dumping the entire primary into the press simply will not work for me. My primaries hold anywhere from 95 to 150 gallons of must (depending on the batch). There is simply no way to lift it.
We used to pump off the free run first, but that was hard because we now needed to scoop EVERYTHING from the very bottom of the primary. This was a little hard on the back. It was much easier to scoop the skins off first, while 90% of it was sitting at the to of the primary.
Yes, after a couple of days I rack the wine off of the gross lees.
Dumping the entire primary into the press simply will not work for me. My primaries hold anywhere from 95 to 150 gallons of must (depending on the batch). There is simply no way to lift it.
We used to pump off the free run first, but that was hard because we now needed to scoop EVERYTHING from the very bottom of the primary. This was a little hard on the back. It was much easier to scoop the skins off first, while 90% of it was sitting at the to of the primary.
