If you look at the AWRI test methods they note that one can pull out bitartrate using a -4C salt ice bath and then have it disappear by warming the sample back up. The general recommendation has to be remove the crystals but to bottle is optional.
When moving the wine from a cold area to the cellar you might as well rack and clean the containers. You're already in the cellar.
Love those jet blasters. Seeing old Carboys stained and caked with sediment vanish so easily is certainly satisfying But get yourself some drain screens! In winemaking these are crucial especially during the ferment with all the skins that end up in the sink that otherwise end up at the bottom of your S trap
The wine is surely done fermenting and degassed, so screwcaps are fine.
Yeah. The wine is crystal clear and zero sediment. I can carry the three gallon up the stairs and to the driveway. Then it goes on a dolly
We have a dolly we use for moving things in and out of the cellar -- it's walk out. No point in carrying things when we can pull 'em!
They make dollies with outdoor tires!
When we did our last pressing, we got smart -- I backed the truck into the backyard (we press on the driveway), we loaded all primaries and equipment into the truck, and drove it.
My glass carboys are all in wooden crates that I built specifically for them.
With apologies for steering a bit off topic -- I wonder if you might have a few do's-and-don'ts (or a particular favored design element) to share based on your experience, as I am planning to build crates (yet to be planned out) for my 5 gallon carboys this winter.
Carboy carriers are made from scrap wood ripped down to 1x1 or so. Cross bracing very important and use screws.
Does that “ouch” mean you slipped and fell or your carboy froze and cracked?Cold crashing outside. I did that last winter when the Pavement was icy. Ouch *^%"!.
