unclevarda
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Hey everyone! First post. I've make a bunch of wine from kits and from juice but this is my first year from grapes.
I pressed them back in september and have only racked once since then preferring to keep it sur-lees out of laziness. There is a fair amount of sediment.
The wine is in the garage and fermented in the 20's during september before dropping off gradually into 0-5c for a few months (I live in vancouver canada) and is now warming up. with temperatures in the high teens.
I bottled 2 out of the 7 batches, but the last one has TONS of carbonation, and I'm trying to not repeat that mistake as I plan on cellaring half of the bottles for a couple of years. So far my degassing consists of vacuum splash racking into a clean carboy and then vacuum bottling the wine. This didn't remove all the C02 (probably due to the cold temperature at the time?)
Should I get the drill mounted stir wand and go at each batch now mixing up the lees and trying to degas before I do my usual splash racking (maybe add some isinglass at the same time? The wine is quite clear from months at cold temperatures.) I would prefer to not have to rack.
Advise?
Thanks a lot guys!
I pressed them back in september and have only racked once since then preferring to keep it sur-lees out of laziness. There is a fair amount of sediment.
The wine is in the garage and fermented in the 20's during september before dropping off gradually into 0-5c for a few months (I live in vancouver canada) and is now warming up. with temperatures in the high teens.
I bottled 2 out of the 7 batches, but the last one has TONS of carbonation, and I'm trying to not repeat that mistake as I plan on cellaring half of the bottles for a couple of years. So far my degassing consists of vacuum splash racking into a clean carboy and then vacuum bottling the wine. This didn't remove all the C02 (probably due to the cold temperature at the time?)
Should I get the drill mounted stir wand and go at each batch now mixing up the lees and trying to degas before I do my usual splash racking (maybe add some isinglass at the same time? The wine is quite clear from months at cold temperatures.) I would prefer to not have to rack.
Advise?
Thanks a lot guys!