Thursday, October 22, 2009

Muscadine Update

I was going to wait another 30 days before messing with this wine.  But there had  not been a hint of a bubble in over a month and with cooler temps in the house the air lock level was moving back towards the wine.  So I decided this would be a good time to rack and sweeten.  Racked both gallons to one of my primary buckets.  Adjust the sugar to taste. (measured sg 1.006) Just a little off dry.  Taste other than being high in the alcohol department (over 15%) was good. similar to a high alcohol version Southern Red from Lakeridge Winery. A little lighter on the body but good.  Transferred back to the cleaned gallon jugs. To one jug I added 1/8tsp of Tannin. To the other a little more sugar (sg 1.012).  Airlocks back on and put away for a couple of months.

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