2007 Ciliegiuolo

[Duffbeer]

Wow, that's one hell of a fast ferment, 3 days at my reckoning. You adding MLF to this one Bob?.
And fancy letting the soccer interfere with the winemaking, they could have had the decency to change the game schedule .

[lockwood1956]

No MLF it wont work in this batch as its made with kit wine


just a further note on 1st run....dont add sorbate as it reacts badly with MLF culture

[Duffbeer]

No MLF it wont work in this batch as its made with kit wine


just a further note on 1st run....dont add sorbate as it reacts badly with MLF culture

Cheers mate, noted and logged
Just checked the sg on the second run and it's 1.030 since yesterday afternoon, is this just a little too fast do you think ?

[lockwood1956]

No...the 2nd runs always go quickly because there is a vibrant healthy yeast colony on the skins, so they just rip away, no lag phase for the yeasties, just almost immediate fermentation.

[Duffbeer]

Your a mindfull of information dude, maybe one day I'll be a winemaking geek

[medpretzel]

Fascinating... Simply fascinating....

Isn't "winemaking geek" an oxymoron?

[lockwood1956]

Not that depends on whether you see winemaking as an art or a science....

if science then Geekery it is


Pressing the 2nd run today

[Duffbeer]

Me too, sg 1.004 woohoo.

[lockwood1956]

You want to run yours through the bladder press?

[Duffbeer]

Ooooooo be there in 20,

[Duffbeer]

Well that's both second runs pressed and sorted, good colour extraction and both tasting rather pleasant, cheers Bob.
Just set the third run on the skins going using the concentrate from a white Grande Maison kit, another instantanious ferment, will wait to see what happens

[lockwood1956]

How much colour did the skins impart immediately?

does it look Rose from the start?

[Duffbeer]

Here we go not a great pic, just taken a glass off, hmm much darker than I was hoping for, must be a lot of colour left in the skins, possibly lighten once cleared maybe

[NorthernWiner]

I'm getting all stoked up watching this topic guys. Looks like you are all having some big fun.

My Cali grapes are coming on Friday!

Steve

[lockwood1956]

Hey steve
what sort of grapes are you getting?