Thread: When to rack?
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Edwin Pawlowski
 
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M wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Glad you are enojoying your wine, I'm new to all of this and will buy
> my first wine it tomorrow (Saturday) One quick question (sorry to
> sound dumb) but what exactly is racking, and how do you do it??
>


Racking is transferring the wine from one container to another. You leave
the sediment behind. Thee are tubes made for racking that you put in the
bottom of the container and it will not disturb the gunk at the bottom 1/2"
or so. --
Ed

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