Uh oh. What if I must leave my frontenac/marquette in primary fermentation ...

[brokenkettle]

Started the new wine this weekend and now I learn that I must be gone for the week and although I have someone to knock down the cap twice a day, the racking into secondary fermentation cannot be done until I return next weekend. What's the bad news? Will the "spent" grape skins create problems in the interim? No way do I want to lose my new wine.

 

[Tess]

I have had this same thing happen more then once!! Lock it down tight before you leave. If its still ragging give instructions to snap down the lid in a few days and put it on airlock. If your in a carboy just keep it on airlock. You should be fine. Iv left mine two weeks

 

[grapeman]

As long as the cap is pushed down a couple times a day, it will be fine to leave it fermenting all week. Press it as soon as you get back, let that settle out for a day and put in the carboys under airlock.