racking – Winemaker's Academy

Racking Your Wine – WMA010

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:37:25 +0000

Racking Your Wine Racking is simply the process of moving wine from one container to another. There are several different ways you can accomplish this, each of which requires different equipment. In this episode we explore four different ways to rack and the equipment involved. In addition to the nuts and bolts of racking you’ll …

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How to Know When to Rack your Wine

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:46:39 +0000

There’s a lot of different information out there on when to rack your wine. Largely this is because you rack at different times for different reasons depending upon where you are in the wine making process. The three main times when you rack a wine are: 1. When moving your wine from the primary fermenter …

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Checking the Specific Gravity and Racking

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:00:31 +0000

After the primary fermentation has slowed down (after about 7 days) it’s time to check the specific gravity. What this tells us is how the density of the wine compares to that of water. Grape juice is more dense than water. Thus before we fermented the grape juice the specific gravity was over 1.0. As …

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Racking off the Lees

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:19:21 +0000

Racking is the next step, after the initial more vigorous fermentation. What is racking? Simply put racking is siphoning your wine off of the dead yeast, known as lees, into a clean container. There are two reasons to rack your wine. First it helps clarify your wine but it can also prevent off flavors from …

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