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First Harvest: Day 22

Today when I tested the specific gravity of the Shiraz, it was unchanged from yesterday, meaning that fermentation has completed. Tomorrow I’ll take the next step: clarifying and stabilizing the wine.
Meanwhile, the pH of the Syrah is rising, for no reason I can figure out. On the advice of Rick at Fermentation Solutions, I added [...]

First Harvest: Day 14

Today the kit wine was fermenting merrily away. I stirred up the lees in the Syrah with a thin dowel, and could see lots of tiny bubbles coming up, indicating that malolactic fermentation (MLF) is underway.
I’d left a small sample of the Syrah overnight to settle out the solids, and tested its ph and [...]

First Harvest: Day 13

Yesterday was pretty busy, so I put off pressing the wine until today. Early in the afternoon I set up the basket press and dumped the contents of the fermenter into a nylon pressing bag in the press.

Harvest Day +12, 1:20 PM: In the press

Normally, you don’t dump the entire contents of the fermented into [...]

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