Been a long, long while…
10PM: Since we might need a 6 gallon carboy for the syrah pressing tomorrow, I decided to rack the 2009 SB and clean up 1 carboy:
- Racked the 6 gallon, 6.5 gallon, 1 gallon into clean 6, 6.5 gallon carboys.
- Measured the SO2 at ~ 25 ppm.
- Added 25 ppm more SO2.
- 6 gallon * 1.6 mL/gallon 10% SO2 solution = 9.6 mL, to each carboy
- Nose: excellent; fruit, citrus, grapefruit, no sign of H2S.
- Taste: also excellent. Good acidity, nice and crisp. I had a glass left over and drank it down.
- This might end up my best wine ever.
- The wine is still cloudy. I’ll let it sit 2 months, and check to see if it needs to be fined.