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    My 2023 Merlot Wine Making Experience.

    Part 2 of my Images.
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    My 2023 Merlot Wine Making Experience.

    Hello everyone, I had the intention of making Merlot this year, as a result of my research, the closest place I could find to Istanbul - Turkey was the vineyard belonging to Mr. Alaettin Sevil in Tekirdağ Şarköy Güzelköy. I contacted him in advance and conveyed my request for 105 kg of Merlot...
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    When to press Merlot Wine ?

    Thanks a lot for the explanation and tips.
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    How do you add PMS before crushing grapes ?

    Hi Everyone, You put your basket under the grape crusher, and before even starting to crush the grapes do you put your pms in the basket by dissolving it in some water or just put is as is in powder form ? and lets say if you have 5 baskets of grapes each 20 Kg( 44lb) you divide the total PMS...
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    When to press Merlot Wine ?

    Hi Everyone, This is my second year in winemaking and this year I am planning to make a Merlot Wine, as far as I understand this type of wine needs longer maceration time, like 10-12 days. In order to extract full color and making a bold wine, What do you think ? How long should the maceration...
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    My new self made Wine rack

    Hi, Well I live in Turkey and wood prices here are not that expensive I know that in US pine wood is expensive I will gice the dimensions in metric so I used 340 1.7cm by 1.7 cm and 24 cm long wooden slats as horozontal bars and 1cm by 4 cm and 71 cm long 40 vertical woodan bars and for the...
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    My new self made Wine rack

    . Hi, This is my first year in winemaking and after I bottled all my wine I was left with 64 bottles, then I decided to purchase a wine rack, unfortunately the prices were way too high than I decided to make it myself after surfing the web to check some designs I calculated the space where I...
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    After corking some of the corks looks slightly elevated

    Very good technique indeed I will try this next year thanks
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    After corking some of the corks looks slightly elevated

    Mine are also natural corks
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    After corking some of the corks looks slightly elevated

    Did you have exploding bottles :)
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    After corking some of the corks looks slightly elevated

    Hi, Actually I left 0.75” airspace between cork and wine but it is not appearent in tbe picture but let me ask you what would be the minimum space between wine and cork ?
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    After corking some of the corks looks slightly elevated

    Hi, This is my first time in winemaking and I just finished corking, before corking I adjusted the nut on the floor corker and the corks are flush, so at this point everything seems ok, but some of my corks looks slightly elevated, from the beginning, what can I do to fix this problem, should I...
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    Searching for a fast flow SS Spigot

    Hi, I have a Sansone 100 Lt tank with a small spigot, the problem is it takes forever to rack the wine to another bucket with this spigot due to low flow rate, the thread size is 1/2" I am trying to find a good quality high flow SS Spigot, what can you recommend me ? I am attaching the one that...
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Thanks for the tip, ok I will first try it by fixing the suction hose on the tap, I will add meta 1 week before bottling that is what I was told is that ok. So the only thing remaining is to see if I can pull from the tap without using a wand ? Also there is a small receiving container at the...
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Thanks this tank is a 25 gallon capacity and sitting on its feet almost 15” higher than floor level then there is the tap which is 2-3 inches higher than that I am thinkin putting enolmatic on table level which will be higher then the tap I will check the dimensions but almost 30”-40” higher so...
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Thanks for the tip yes racking into a bucket will make life much more easier, I was quite worried about oxygenation but I guess at this stage it won’t create a big issue. Thanks
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Hi, Thanks I have alteady racked my wine 3 times prior this, so I believe only very little or zero amount sedimentbis there I am just preparing myself I will work with water to get myself acusstomed to use enolmatic during bottling.
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Hi thanks yes the wine is in this ss tank right now before this during racking I remember I used to transfer the wine via the tap without taking out the variable lid I think dry airlock helps with that what do you think ?
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    Using Enolmatic Bottle Filler for the first time

    Hi, Everyone, This year I am making my first wine and I am planning to use Enolmatic bottle filler for the first time, there are a few things that I would like to ask, first of all the most important part enolmatic comes with a syphon wand but since I am going to use it with my SS tank there...
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