I_Drank_It
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Does Secondary Airspace make darker wine?
I have a batch of muscadine wine that was started on 6 Sep 10. I have two full gallon jugs and a gallon jug that is ~half full. I just racked the batch for the second time and noticed that wine in the not-full jug was substantially darker than the other two. All of this wine is from the same batch. One difference is the fact that the partial jug was the last one siphoned to from the primary...which means it did get more lees/sediment than the other two. The only other difference is the partial jug does have more air space. Is this typical of your batches? I am concerned about using wine from the partial jug to top off my other two when I rack. I don't want to ruin the two full jugs if I've messed up with the third.
I have a batch of muscadine wine that was started on 6 Sep 10. I have two full gallon jugs and a gallon jug that is ~half full. I just racked the batch for the second time and noticed that wine in the not-full jug was substantially darker than the other two. All of this wine is from the same batch. One difference is the fact that the partial jug was the last one siphoned to from the primary...which means it did get more lees/sediment than the other two. The only other difference is the partial jug does have more air space. Is this typical of your batches? I am concerned about using wine from the partial jug to top off my other two when I rack. I don't want to ruin the two full jugs if I've messed up with the third.