I just did an Island Mist Peach-Apricot Chardonnay that went through secondary fermentation for the normal period of time. I noticed that it had a slight rotten egg smell which I'm still not sure if it's just me not smelling correctly or if it really existed. This is my first of this type of wine so I don't know if it's supposed to smell like that or not. (It wasn't very strong.)
I went ahead and did the stabilizing routine, adding the k-meta,k-sorb, fining, degass and F-pack on Friday evening, and let most of the stuff settle out on Saturday, thenracked it off the substantial lees on Sunday to let the remainder settle out.
I had read here from someone that if you detect that rotten egg smell, to get it off the lees as quickly as possible.
That smell appears to be gone now, but will it finish clearing properly since most of the lees are gone? It's still cloudy since it never had a chance to clear in the 1.5 days after stabilizing and fining before I racked again.
Is this wine batch going to be ok? Is it possible that I really didn't smell what I think I did and was just smelling the normal stuff from the Chard? My first Chard batch so I have no idea if it's supposed to have that slight bit of smell or not.
-Kelly
I went ahead and did the stabilizing routine, adding the k-meta,k-sorb, fining, degass and F-pack on Friday evening, and let most of the stuff settle out on Saturday, thenracked it off the substantial lees on Sunday to let the remainder settle out.
I had read here from someone that if you detect that rotten egg smell, to get it off the lees as quickly as possible.
That smell appears to be gone now, but will it finish clearing properly since most of the lees are gone? It's still cloudy since it never had a chance to clear in the 1.5 days after stabilizing and fining before I racked again.
Is this wine batch going to be ok? Is it possible that I really didn't smell what I think I did and was just smelling the normal stuff from the Chard? My first Chard batch so I have no idea if it's supposed to have that slight bit of smell or not.
-Kelly