Sweet!
I checked the sugars on all the ferments:
- Rose of zin:
- Free run: 0.4%; taste of citrus, fruit, some bitterness; great fruity nose.
- Press run: 0.6%
- Zin (60 gallon barrel): 0.6 -1.0 % (somewhere in between…); slight whiff of H2S dissipated with swirling; may need aeration racking to clean it up; some tannins, nice fruit, great color
- Syrah (60 gallon barrel): 0.2 – 0.4%; still strong H2S. It took a lot of aerating to get it good. Will need to copper.
I have a space heater on a thermostat set for 65 F in the cellar. I put the glass carboys up on boxes to raise them off of the floor, which is colder. I also brought the thermostat down to the level of the barrels and carboys. I think the carboys will move along a little quicker now. The rose has been fermenting a long time!