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Last night I had a very nice and interesting chat with Steve(Vacuumpumpman). He brought up an interesting point about alcohol levels being different at different heights in corboys and tanks. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is called stratification or stratified.
So anyways I asked our winemaker about it today and he said it is only an issue in tanks over 18' tall. He studied/worked for 6 months in Austrilia during harvest time and they actually had huge tanks that would circulate the wine to prevent this from happening. At our level of wine making and most small to medium size wineries would not have to deal with this.
So anyways I asked our winemaker about it today and he said it is only an issue in tanks over 18' tall. He studied/worked for 6 months in Austrilia during harvest time and they actually had huge tanks that would circulate the wine to prevent this from happening. At our level of wine making and most small to medium size wineries would not have to deal with this.