Plymouthpete
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I've been a reader of this forum for several months now. My wife suggestged a couple months ago that I take up another hobby (wine making), golf season is winding down in the hills of Connecticut, and my Koi and shubunkins in my Koi pond are bedding down for the winter. Two months ago we started our first batch of Late Harvest Riesling, we bottled 5 bottles and put the rest of the wine from a 6 gal. carboy to a 5 gal. that is now bulk aging in our cellar hatchway. We also have 6 gals of Pinot Noir aging in a carboy next to the Riesling. We got so hooked on the great aromas coming from the primary and secondary fermentations, we then started 3 gals of Ice wine and 3 gals of Cream Sherry, both are in the clarification stage right now. Last week we started a 6 gal batch of Merlot. As you can tell, when I start something I jump in all the way.
Finally here is my question. After reading this forum daily, I am still a little puzzled about bottling. What I have done so far is rinse the bottles, then sanitize them with a solution of Potassium Metabisulfite then rinse them again with hot waterand hang them on the bottle tree until we are ready to bottle.
Should I rinse the PM from the bottles prior to bottling or leave a coating of it on the inside of the bottles? I don't want to overdose my wines with too much sulfite, yet I don't want to put my wine in an unsanitary bottle.
thanks in advance for some bottling answers
Pete
Edited by: Plymouthpete
Finally here is my question. After reading this forum daily, I am still a little puzzled about bottling. What I have done so far is rinse the bottles, then sanitize them with a solution of Potassium Metabisulfite then rinse them again with hot waterand hang them on the bottle tree until we are ready to bottle.
Should I rinse the PM from the bottles prior to bottling or leave a coating of it on the inside of the bottles? I don't want to overdose my wines with too much sulfite, yet I don't want to put my wine in an unsanitary bottle.
thanks in advance for some bottling answers
Pete
Edited by: Plymouthpete