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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...

Yeah, i have a hose in the grapes lugs while I sort the grapes to remove the ones that are damaged, leaves and other stuff.

Ok thank you all for your response. Will keep you informed on how things are evolving. Cheers Ben

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...