Lancman 80 Liter Bladder Press. All Stainless steel. Used for two seasons. Works very well. Paid $1650 asking $800 or best offer. I'm located in Central PA.
Thanks for all the advice. I wondered about acetaldehyde. I never thought about the o-rings and gaskets not providing a good seal.
I'm gonna try to save it. Since the samples from the bottom still smell and taste great I'm going to try to rack it from the bottom. Luckily I have a 3 gallon...
I have two tanks, both are new. I considered racking and may do just that. I also thought about carefully taking wine off the top and then racking from the bottom. Topping will be necessary but better that than losing 30 gallons.
I have 30 gallons of Cab Sauv in a 30 flex tank with french oak staves. The wine is with in less than an inch of the top of the tank. It has been aging since early November. I drew a sample today from the sampling valve and it smells and tastes great. I opened the top of the tank and I noticed...
I made 20 gallons of chambourcin from grapes this year and plan to make a semi-sweet with a portion of it. I'm not sure whether to oak the part I plan to sweeten. Any suggestions, experiences, etc with sweet chambourcin?
I know the alcohol level is crazy high. I've had zin from California that was 17.3%. Not sure how they did it. Maybe they skipped it.
The TA isn't very high so I could skip Mlf although I would prefer to smooth it out a bit. It's simply too sweet to not finish AF or at least get it closer to...
thanks for the quick responses.
I should have adjusted the must prior to fermentation or at least used a higher alcohol tolerance yeast like EC1118 or KV1116.
I am leaning toward getting the wine through MLF first and then using one of the high alcohol yeasts to try to get as much sugar...
The zinfandel grapes I bought from CA this year came in at 29.5 brix. I used ICV-D254 yeast with Go-Ferm and Ferm K. Fermentation stopped at just below 5 brix. I pressed off the skins after 20 days.
I want to put this through MLF. Not sure if I should get the wine through MLF before fixing...