Hi,
My wine has been aging in carboys since October. I racked a couple of times (without adding sulfites), and each time (as expected) I would get fewer and fewer fine lees on the bottom. However, the last time I racked, I added sulfites (in the form of one crushed campden tablet per gallon). I expected that to be the last racking before I bottled, and I planned on bottling today. Well within a few days after that last racking I had way more lees deposited on the bottom of the carboy than I did in that last several months!
So today, instead of bottling, I'm going to rack again. I would wait to rack, but I also added oak chips during my last racking, and I need to get the wine off of them. And I don't think it's the oak chips that caused this, because I've done that many times before and they never caused this to happen.
So, my question is, can sulfites cause all those additional lees to drop out and cause my wine to cloud a little?
My wine has been aging in carboys since October. I racked a couple of times (without adding sulfites), and each time (as expected) I would get fewer and fewer fine lees on the bottom. However, the last time I racked, I added sulfites (in the form of one crushed campden tablet per gallon). I expected that to be the last racking before I bottled, and I planned on bottling today. Well within a few days after that last racking I had way more lees deposited on the bottom of the carboy than I did in that last several months!
So today, instead of bottling, I'm going to rack again. I would wait to rack, but I also added oak chips during my last racking, and I need to get the wine off of them. And I don't think it's the oak chips that caused this, because I've done that many times before and they never caused this to happen.
So, my question is, can sulfites cause all those additional lees to drop out and cause my wine to cloud a little?