WineXpert anyone tried the chardonnay trick?

[sangwitch]

Has anyone tried the buttery chardonnay trick as described in the newsletter section?


http://www.finevinewines.com/Buttery-Chardonnay.htm


I'm curious as I just started a Chardonnay kit this morning.

 

[Angell Wine]

Yea, but I put lemon tea in the must (which voids the warranty) with great success. It gave it a slight lemon taste to it. I had to sweeten it up a tad bit to knock down the tannins. But if you have the time I would use this method on any of the white wines that take some kind of oak.

 

[sangwitch]

<LI>Make you kit up as normal, and rack to the secondary carboy on day 5-7 as directed.
<LI>After ten days, ignore the instructions about fining and stabilising. Instead, add one-quarter teaspoon of metabisulphite powder to the wine, and gently stir it up with a sanitised spoon.
<LI>Get all of the yeast sediment in to suspension, make sure it’s nice and cloudy, but don’t splash or agitate.
<LI>Top up with some decent Chardonnay wine (this is better than using water for this technique). At three or four day intervals, go back and stir the yeast up again.
<LI>Repeat every three or four days for a month.
<LI>Let the wine settle for two weeks, rack it into a clean, sanitised carboy, and follow all the remaining instructions on schedule, omitting no detail however slight.

Cool. I would like to try it andcompare. One thing I'm confused about is what point I start to "follow all the remaining instructions". When he says to "ignore the instructions about fining and stabilising", does he mean for good or is that the step I pick back up at? I still need to fine and stabilize right?


Maybe stirring up all those amino acids does something I'm not aware of. </LI>Edited by: sangwitch

 

[masta]

On the last step" Let the wine settle for two weeks, rack it into a clean, sanitized carboy, and follow all the remaining instructions on schedule, omitting no detail however slight" you need to pull over a small amount of the lees when you do the racking to help the fining agent work. Then add the stabilizing (sorbate and k-meta) and fining agent, stir well and then settle until clear for bottling.