For my MM ME Granbarolo, I used marbles to bring wine up to 1 inch of airlock in carboy. I had never needed to use this technique before and so went out looking for marbles to displace volume. I went to a local dollar store and they had these decorative marbles for flower pots, etc. that I thought would work well and so bought about 5 bags. They're a painted type marble and then after putting them in the wine, noticed they're made in China (what a surprise?!!) and so am now worried that I should rack the wine off the marbles to avoid lead leaching and then find some marbles that aren't painted.
Any comments would be appreciated on this...
Any comments would be appreciated on this...