Press time
We decided to press off sweet at around 5 brix. Trying to keep the tannins down a little, and we had a long cold soak.
We drained off the free run from the valve, and put it into the 20 and 30 gallon white tubs, straining out the seeds. Worked really well. Then pressed the rest in 2 press runs. We probably have 80 gallons of free run, and about 20 of press run.
We have:
- 5 20 gallon tubs, 3/4 full, of free run = 75 gallons
- 1 30 gallon tub, 1/2 full, of press run = 15 gallons
- 1 14 gallon demijon, 2/3 full of press run = 10 gallons
Because of the heat (predicted into the 80’s) we transferred all of the containers to the cellar to wait 2 days until Friday morning when we will rack off of gross lees to barrel.
