Do you have instruction on racking wine?!
Do you have instruction on racking wine?
Moving wine from one container to another a number of times to clear the wine before bottling.
Answers:
Hey Jimmy,
The proper way to do this is called "Riddling". The only way to accomplish this without riddling is to age it in large barrels and to remove the wine from the top into it's final bottles. I am assuming that you don't have a large barrel that you are fermenting in. So your only recourse is to Riddle.
When you Riddle, the wine is placed at a 35-45 degree angle and every few days, the wine bottle is turned so that sediments will fall towards the cork. After several weeks of this you will take the bottle out of your riddling rack and freeze the top of the bottle with either liquid nitrogen or liquid CO2. (In the old days it was done slowly in buckets of ice and salt) When the top of the bottle+wine is frozen, the cork is removed - taking with it the sediments, and the wine is re-corked and re-riddled. This is done twice and you then have a sediment free wine. Make sure that your wine will always stay "On cork" for best results.
The only large scale production that is done this way is Domain Chandon and Dom Perignon. All of Chandons White Star and Cuvee's as well as their high end production are done this way.
Hope that I helped,
James in San Diego
Source(s):
Chandon explains their riddling:
www.chandon.com/vineyards/arti...
Wine should be racked with the cork in angle so that the wine is on it at all times, so the air bubble is at the back of the bottle. Don't want your cork to dry out.
keep cool and cork wet
