I am currently a month into my first rack and all of the lees have settled down to the bottom of my carboy, but it looks like I have an awful lot and I am afraid it may displace my wine too much.
Do you think I should give it one more good stir to remove a ton of tiny air bubbles and allow the lees to settle in a more compacted manner?
Should I rack off the top and try squeezing the wine out of the mass of lees that I have?
Or do I just chock the lees/trapped wine as a loss and learn from my mistakes?
Most of the lees are from plums, but it is a plum and muscadine wine
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Do you think I should give it one more good stir to remove a ton of tiny air bubbles and allow the lees to settle in a more compacted manner?
Should I rack off the top and try squeezing the wine out of the mass of lees that I have?
Or do I just chock the lees/trapped wine as a loss and learn from my mistakes?
Most of the lees are from plums, but it is a plum and muscadine wine
![1483567979193.jpg 1483567979193.jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/winemakingtalk/data/attachments/29/29583-a10a0c77c32ea23b7eeeab167d086200.jpg)
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