Hi All, Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Rather foolishly I bought huge demijohns for this year's must. 34 litre ones to be precise.
Racking after two months is upon me and I know once the wine is drawn off the sediment the meniscus will be considerably lower if the wine is put back into the same vessels. Should I siphon to much smaller demijohns and have the usual air gap or can I get away with a big gap? Is there an easily available gas I can squirt into the inert gap? Or am I just making it all too complicated and should just put it in smaller glasses?
The current fermentation uses about 9/10ths of the demijohns volume so I was hoping the co2 has preserved it to this point........
Very best, Mike
Rather foolishly I bought huge demijohns for this year's must. 34 litre ones to be precise.
Racking after two months is upon me and I know once the wine is drawn off the sediment the meniscus will be considerably lower if the wine is put back into the same vessels. Should I siphon to much smaller demijohns and have the usual air gap or can I get away with a big gap? Is there an easily available gas I can squirt into the inert gap? Or am I just making it all too complicated and should just put it in smaller glasses?
The current fermentation uses about 9/10ths of the demijohns volume so I was hoping the co2 has preserved it to this point........
Very best, Mike
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