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Many, many sources confirm that "argon does not dissolve into wine". .....but what if I pressurize it ? If I fill the headspace of a vessel with argon at a very very modest positive pressure --such as 2 psi-- will that change this assumption and cause my argon to dissolve into the wine ? In a...

Bottle sparging seems easy - I have the air wand, you fill the bottle with co2 and then immediately fill with wine. But I don't understand how to effectively, with a real, repeatable process, displace the headspace in the bottle just prior to cork insertion. Commercial bottlers do this in a...

I wouldn't ask this question if I was using a carboy and had a few inches of headspace ... I am asking because I often find myself with a 14 gallon stainless container with, say, 2-3 gallons of headspace in it. That is a TON of headspace. The way I manage this, currently, is I pour high-flow...

I have 12 gallons of wine in a 14 gallon stainless fermenter - just did the third racking. So that's a lot of headspace ... I very, very liberally poured in A TON of co2 - like it was pouring out the bunghole like a witches cauldron then I quick slid on a bung with a valve and then pulled...