Juice Bucket Chianti

[rustbucket]

Roy, I like your idea about adding fresh grapes to the bucket. Do you press the grapes or squish them in a muslin bag before adding them to the must?

 

[FTC Wines]

Ron, Heather see her post above also adds fresh grapes to her buckets. I smash them by hand & just throw into the bucket. Most times I have 4 buckets fermenting from the 3 - 6 gal pails & the lug i.e. 36 lbs of grapes, just eye ball egual parts. Then when I rack I blend the 4 buckets together. Then we Throw all the leftover grapes in a bag & I press Them in my press. Usually we do this the same day as pressing the 3 lugs of fresh grapes. This way there is only one press clean up. Roy