We picked our Viognier grapes 9/10 and had our first racking 9/24. followed the recipe in the Home Winemaking Companion.
Reracked 12/14 and added Bocksin since we noticed an odor. Would not describe it as rotten egg smell but definitely off. At first we thought it might be just a strong alcohol smell. Reracked with copper sheet again on 12/19 because no improvement but better after we did that. We reracked again 2/10 and the smell is back. The wine at this racking had very little sediment, is very clear and tastes nice. Just the smell.
We're thinking maybe we sprayed with too much sulpher??
so....we decided to reracked into plastic primary, put screen on top and put outside (30 degrees) thinking this may get rid of gasses. We bring in at night - don't want dancing raccoons.
Any thoughts??
Reracked 12/14 and added Bocksin since we noticed an odor. Would not describe it as rotten egg smell but definitely off. At first we thought it might be just a strong alcohol smell. Reracked with copper sheet again on 12/19 because no improvement but better after we did that. We reracked again 2/10 and the smell is back. The wine at this racking had very little sediment, is very clear and tastes nice. Just the smell.
We're thinking maybe we sprayed with too much sulpher??
so....we decided to reracked into plastic primary, put screen on top and put outside (30 degrees) thinking this may get rid of gasses. We bring in at night - don't want dancing raccoons.
Any thoughts??