Yes. Rack and add k-meta before bottling.
How long can you ignore your wine?
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Yes. Rack and add k-meta before bottling.
HillPeople
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5 months or so in glass carboys with little headspace, CO2 in what little there is and K-Meta at 60 ppm is no problem. Barrel aging takes more regular attention in topping up and testing sulfite levels.
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Carefully Add Sufite and Go
I also think you can leave a wine unattended for five months with minimal risk. A word of caution: Make sure you've added sulfite at the recommended level at least once prior to your final check before leaving, and added it to a stable level for red wines before your final check. Reds can react with 50 - 90% of the sulfite you first add, so make sure you've adjusted for this and reached a stable level of Free SO2. Also, make sure you are adjusting Free SO2 levels according to the pH level of each wine. Then, adding to achieve the high target before you go should leave your wines with adequate protection, without adding so much that you slow down the aging process to a crawl.
Information on the pH - Free SO2 relationship can be found on the Accuvin website, in the "Wine Lab" section, or following this link: http://www.accuvin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/How-SO2-and-pH-are-Linked.pdf
I also think you can leave a wine unattended for five months with minimal risk. A word of caution: Make sure you've added sulfite at the recommended level at least once prior to your final check before leaving, and added it to a stable level for red wines before your final check. Reds can react with 50 - 90% of the sulfite you first add, so make sure you've adjusted for this and reached a stable level of Free SO2. Also, make sure you are adjusting Free SO2 levels according to the pH level of each wine. Then, adding to achieve the high target before you go should leave your wines with adequate protection, without adding so much that you slow down the aging process to a crawl.
Information on the pH - Free SO2 relationship can be found on the Accuvin website, in the "Wine Lab" section, or following this link: http://www.accuvin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/How-SO2-and-pH-are-Linked.pdf
