On Jun 8, 5:46 am, "Dar V" > wrote:
> It's your wine and your tastebuds, part of what's cool about making your own
> wine is to make it so you and yours like it. Good-luck.
> Darlene
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> "snpm" > wrote in message
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> > On Jun 7, 5:31 pm, "Dar V" > wrote:
> >> Hi Dave,
> >> It might be dry enough, but I guess I'm concerned about the amount of
> >> sediment left in the wine if it hasn't been racked enough. I follow
> >> Jack's
> >> advice; rack, sorbate, and let sit for at least 10 days before bottling,
> >> but
> >> this is usually after the Welchs has sat for 7 months and been racked 2-3
> >> times already.
> >> Darlene
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> >> "Dave Allison" > wrote in message
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> >> > I'd rack, then sorbate, then let sit for a few days, then bottle.
> >> > .993 is dry enough for a welches!
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> >> > DAve
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> >> > Dar V wrote:
> >> >> How old is the wine and how many times have you racked it?
> >> >> Darlene
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> >> >> "snpm" > wrote in message
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> >> >>> I have a welches concord 6 gallon going for the wife. SG has been 993
> >> >>> for weeks, but every morning there is still a trace ring of bubbles
> >> >>> on
> >> >>> the surface of the demijohn. It has been racked once, and appears not
> >> >>> to have a heavy sediment at this point as none is realy visible, but
> >> >>> obviously, this is concord so its a bit dark.
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> >> >>> I want to sorbate. My wife wants to drink her plonk, and I need to
> >> >>> use
> >> >>> up some bottles...the bubbles worry me enough to hope sorbating will
> >> >>> help insure against exploding vino. I have a house full of little
> >> >>> kids.
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> >> >>> My question is this: should I rack before sorbating? If I sorbate as-
> >> >>> is, will the stirring to distribute the sorbate throw the sediment up
> >> >>> so badly that I might have to wait a really long time before I have a
> >> >>> clear wine again?
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> >> >>> Thanks
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> > I dont anticipate huge sediment in the wine at this point, that would
> > be a first. I will take a glass off and check it out, and if all is
> > halfway decent, proceed to rack and sorabte and wait and bottle. Its
> > maybe three months old. In there somewhere. I craft artisan wine this
> > will not be, you understand.
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lol....too true.....in this case, actually my wifes taste buds...I
cant drink it, it tastes too much like pop. But one pleases ones wifey
at all costs, so concord wine it shall be! I just racked it...there
was indeed a significant gooey sediment, and the wine is still cloudy.
Thanks again for the assistance as always guys