I rinse the grapes with the hose, but I dont leave the grapes in a bucket full of water. I sort the grapes under the hose, so it will remove leftover of soil, chemicals they use to preserve and wild yeast. Then i let the lug of grapes sits for 30 min and dump it in the crusher destemmer. Looking...
Ok thx all for your reply.
I will Top-up carboy then leave MLF finish.
Question:
If it takes a few more weeks to complete mlf is there any danger that wine taste is affected by this white thing?
Ok thanks. I will rack this week-end maybe add 1/8 teaspoon So2 + top up carboy, last time I verified PH was 3.45 for 5 Gallons. Based on what I read on a few sites, (approximate measures) = 0.7 to 0.8 G of Potassium Metabisulfite to get a 25ppm (free) so2 level, which should be sufficient to...
Hello,
I have started my 3rd wine batch from grapes. (3rd year). The 2 first year wine were successful.
2019 batch of wine is from Californian grapes (Cab Sauvignon and Merlot).
Washed, crushed and de-stemmed grapes.
Fermented together (Cab+Merlot).
Once fermented, transferred to carboys...