21 December 2007
[Epi 18] TintoTV - wine kit primary fermentation
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Happy holidays 2007 to everyone out there! I hope you are giving out some of your wine as gifts!!! As for us, hopefully this Winexpert Argentine Malbec will mature into a great Christmas gift in 2008, we shall see.
In this episode, we simply track our primary fermentation for the few days after reconstituting the juice and pitching the yeast. After each 24 hour interval, we note the temperature of the juice-wine and take a specific gravity reading. Instead of following the Winexpert instructions which detail racking schedules based on the number of days, we thought it would be more accurate to track the fermentation simply by watching how the specific gravity fell. We planned to rack somewhere around 1.010 and 1.000.
Unfortunately, being home winemakers, we cannot dedicate as much time as we’d like to the wine, and we weren’t going to be ready to rack by the time the wine reached our target SG. So, in that regard, we sealed our primary fermenter and added the airlock to the lid. Because we are fermenting in a bucket, we don’t really have a risk of the wine bubbling over, and the wine is still producing enough carbon dioxide to protect it from excess oxygen (or too much air in that space between the wine and the lid). The airlock ensured no more air would enter into the wine. Did you notice how the airlock was going crazy in the video?
That’s it for now… stay tuned to watch how we racked our wine. Best wishes to all!
-Stephany and Nico
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