Hello,
I've been making wine for about 2 years. I started with juice buckets and now I make directly from grapes. The juice buckets were ok and I haven't bottled my grapes yet.
I've been aging my wine in glass carboys with oak sticks/spirals. I put the sticks/spirals in for a about 6 weeks and age the wine for about 1 year (from crush to bottle).
I'm concerned that I'm not reaching the potential of the wine as I'm not using oak barrels. The idea of using oak barrels sounds cool but I don't think I'm up for the additional work, risk and expense.
It there anything I can being doing w/ my glass carboys that mimics the aging process in the oak barrels (micro-oxidation)? Will my glass-aged wine be good?
I've been making wine for about 2 years. I started with juice buckets and now I make directly from grapes. The juice buckets were ok and I haven't bottled my grapes yet.
I've been aging my wine in glass carboys with oak sticks/spirals. I put the sticks/spirals in for a about 6 weeks and age the wine for about 1 year (from crush to bottle).
I'm concerned that I'm not reaching the potential of the wine as I'm not using oak barrels. The idea of using oak barrels sounds cool but I don't think I'm up for the additional work, risk and expense.
It there anything I can being doing w/ my glass carboys that mimics the aging process in the oak barrels (micro-oxidation)? Will my glass-aged wine be good?