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Merlot Degassed and Fining

The Vintners Reserve Merlot that I’ve had fermenting in the cellar was degassed and stabilized today.  The wine reached full dryness last week, but I was unable to get to the degassing until today.  As I have found in the past, the easiest way to degas is to remove about a third of the wine

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Merlot Second Batch

Today, I also started my second batch of Merlot from the same Vintners Reserve collection.  All things considered, I know all of this by heart now and it makes the process that much faster.  My starting gravity on the Merlot must was 1.088 after adding 2 pounds of granular sugar to the mix.  At 78

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