With several of the wines nearing dryness and my backup carboys on the way I need to start to think about pressing. Since I've had the press built into the Winepod in prior years it was a little easier. This year I bought a #30 basket press. The problem with these things is they are too short to flow into a 5 gallon bucket. I've seen some people building special stands with locking wheels to make it easier to get the wine into the buckets. I may have to do some improvisation. My plan is to first press into 5 gallon buckets, then use the pump or siphon into the carboys. I suppose I'll add the MLF culture once they are in the carboys.
For the flextank, my plan is to pump to the second flextank and use the variable volume skin once the wine is in the second tank. I'll probably put some in carboys to oak so I can see the difference and to make it easier to taste.
As you can see there's a lot of experimentation going on here. A few blending experiments, some tannin experiments, some oak experiemnts, and some native yeast experimentation. My hope will be that I can more clearly learn what I like and be able to make more informed decisions in future batches.
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