Ah, the end of a long day. I picked-up 10 boxes of Merlot at 8am, finished washing-up at 8:15pm. I test weighed one average box - it was 9kg. Stripping by hand and mashing by foot I managed 64L of must in total. One box had about 30% gone brown & mushy so I chucked those, the others I was perhaps a bit picky about and probably threw away 250 gm of grapes in each (2.5kg for the batch - it all adds up).
So for this batch of merlot, 10 boxes = roughly 90kg = 64 L. I'm expecting to lose 25% on pressing so should theoretically be 64 bottles.
So for this batch of this grape 25L (full measure) would be close to 4 boxes.
I'm testing tomorrow for brix, TA, pH.
So for this batch of merlot, 10 boxes = roughly 90kg = 64 L. I'm expecting to lose 25% on pressing so should theoretically be 64 bottles.
So for this batch of this grape 25L (full measure) would be close to 4 boxes.
I'm testing tomorrow for brix, TA, pH.
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