What's going on in your winery today..

[spritzer]

Not a lot - just checking some SGs.

Ditto

Oh, and I am drinking a nice cuppa tea

[goldseal]

Tea - good idea

[lockwood1956]

Nothing today.....

been shopping for choccies for girls at the office, and getting ready for office Crimbo party tonight

Martina not here for this one

[wisp]

Hoping my #1 wines are nicely cleared up for Christmas after racking and adding finings

[kampervan]

wine no1 with rubarb niceeeee

[ms67]

moved the rose petal wine to secondary, amazing colour!

[wisp]

decided to check a bottle of plum, fantastically sour, and elderberry, really juicy. I know they both need to mature, but you've got to check them haven't you?

[Paulwales]

things have been very quiet lately till today... I won twelve DJs from ebay with another 9 finishing in a few hours...after that its full steam ahead again

[goldseal]

Filtered & bottled a Beaverdale Pinot Grigio.

Filtered a 2008 Rhubarb & ginger, sweetened with elderflower syrup, then bottled.

[kampervan]

racked a citrus mead

[ms67]

Filtered a 2008 Rhubarb & ginger, sweetened with elderflower syrup, then bottled.

that sounds good! have you made this before?

[NorthernWiner]

I'm fining all my white wines with bentonite this morning. In another week, they will go into the garage for cold stabilization.

[hedgerow]

racked several demijohns of elderberry and started another couple of tea wines, also racked 40 pints of beer into its new home/barrel with the clearing finning added aswell

[lockwood1956]

Racked 10 gallons of Seyval

I have never seen a wine throw so much acid during fermentation

the primary fermentation vessel had a coating on the sides all the way down about 2mm thick, and the secondary vessel had around 1 cm of crystals at the base, which incidentally made it really easy to rack as it held the sediment below it.


mind you the acidity was 11g/l when it started


some of this batch is earmarked for sparkling wine production, as Karl and I are making the sparkling aperitif for the Friday night reception at the guild of Judges weekend in Oct 2010 (no pressure then) Im making dry white and Karl is making Med Rose.....what fun

[ms67]

..... the secondary vessel had around 1 cm of crystals at the base, which incidentally made it really easy to rack as it held the sediment below it.

sounds like this could be a useful method for something, as an intentionally done thing. gonna stick it on my back boiler and see what, if anything, happens in the coming months or years!