Mosti Mondiale LaBodega Port Kit

[Longtrain]

Ok, fermentation is completed, finishing at .998 over course of 4 days. Added 1/8 tsp K-meta, 1.75 of Paul Mason brandy, the F-pack to my primary fermenter, racked the port, leaving oak and lees. Splash racked to a clean 3 gallon carboy and had enough left over to make an additional gallon with what was left over from 1st racking. Smells great, now the wait. Plan to rack in 3 months, maybe at 6 months. Plan to add sorbate and finings prior to bottling, a final rack, filter and bottle. I'm getting a Buon Vin filter for Christmas, what filter should be used for this port? Thanks...this is fun.

 

[Tyroneshoolace]

I just wanted to add that I pulled the trigger on a double order of this and both kits have 2 reserve packs in them as mentioned before. I assume they may have changed the f-pack blend to a smaller volume to use in other kits and just doubled the pack in the port to regain the same volume.

Also I'm not too certain which filter to use on a port but for almost anything I have done, I used a 2 for my mini-jet which seems to add some good polish to the wine with out taking much away flavour wise.

Now I just need to make some room in the wine room so I can get these started.

 

[Tyroneshoolace]

Just getting these under way today and am a little unclear about the clarifying stage with adding the f-packs, clarifying, and fortifying.

Once this ferment hits 1.01 I plan on adding the yeast nutrient and sugar to bring back to 1.03 to reduce the amount of brandy when the fortifying comes around.

once less than 1.00 I will rack to carboy add oak for 10-12 days.

This is where things get a little fuzzy for me as I plan on not using the sorbate and letting the high abv and the additional brandy to help against any chance of re-ferment..

Do I add k meta then clarify before adding the brandy and f pack at the same time?

or do I add meta, brandy, fpack then clarify?

Any help would be great as I think I am over thinking this and just can't seem to figure out the right way LOL.

 

[Longtrain]

I added K-meta, brandy and flavoring. Let it sit for a bit, actually racked it yesterday with my new allinonewinepump (had to try it), going to bulk age it for 6 months and bottle, a month prior to bottling I'll add the fining, sorbate and then rack and filter before bottling.

 

[ibglowin]

I would add Sulfite and fining agents, let it clear, rack off the fines then add Sorbate, stir well, add the f-pack, stir well, fortify with brandy.

No sense in adding and then losing any of the f-pack or brandy to a racking!

 

[Tyroneshoolace]

Sounds good. I think I'm going to let it finish. K-meta, clarify, brandy then f pack to avoid using sorbate for re-ferment.

Also hoping to bulk for a year before bottling. Because of this higher alcohol content would there be less sulphite additions needed over the year?

 

[Longtrain]

I sampled mine yesterday, very, very good. Waiting will be tough I think. N.B. my kit also came with two F-packs, I and some other posters thought that it was in error, as previous kits only contained one.
But, IMO two F-packs would have been much too sweet for my tastes, so, I'm glad I only used one. Thus another issue with the poor instructions, that didn't even mention one F-pack, never mind two. (I did not call MM, which I take responsibility for, as they could have straightened out the questions that arose). But, I'm still happy and anxious about the product and plan to purchase it again.

 

[Wade E]

You can use less sulfite but in reality we as hobbiest's typically stay lower on the sulfite level anyway so why risk it?.

 

[Tyroneshoolace]

Sounds good Wade, thanks again for your help!