AlFulchino
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that is what i allow Dean......
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Mine sit for a long while as well. Honestly I think its more of a need to play with the wine not realizing that the best thing to do is cover it up and walk away. I set a reminder to check the air locks and add kmeta and I'll take a peak, when I remember, just to ease my mind that nothing funky is happening. Other then that unless I need (or want) to do something I leave it alone.
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I agree, i hear so many people asking what to op up with and Ill admit when i started i had to do it a few times, but hers 1 to add to the list Al!
When making a scratch wine or any wine for that matter besides a kit, make more then need so that you have some for topping off with later instaed of having to get marbles, commercial wine, or gases. make sure yiu have proper vessels to adapt down!
When making a scratch wine or any wine for that matter besides a kit, make more then need so that you have some for topping off with later instaed of having to get marbles, commercial wine, or gases. make sure yiu have proper vessels to adapt down!
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Re. leaving the wine alone, it makes me wonder about the first wine makers. Did they fiddle with their wines or leave them on the lees? Then again, maybe they dealt with off tastes and we don't. (Did they know they were off?) I know there are no answers but it is fun to speculate.
AlFulchino
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admiral.....i have to wonder if you have been in my thoughts...i have had the same thought
Al, "great minds... and all that." I know that the first wines can't have been anything like the wines we make and drink. I am sure the first wines were a mistake. It probably started with some stored or neglected grape or some other fruit juice that became wine through wild yeast action. And the look of surprise on the face of the first unknowing vintner must have been something.
I know that the Greeks used wine that was thick with sediment and would be diluted before consumption. The sediment was so thick that at their symposiums (drinking parties) they played a game of flinging the dregs at a target in the center of the room. The cups they used for drinking (kylixes) were shaped so as to ease drinking while lying down and were great for flinging dregs.
So, I know that modern wines are far different from the first wines. Probably none of these wines would be appealing to the modern wine drinker. Still, I think "leave it alone" is still a great strategy for fining and aging wine.
Symposium
Kylix
I know that the Greeks used wine that was thick with sediment and would be diluted before consumption. The sediment was so thick that at their symposiums (drinking parties) they played a game of flinging the dregs at a target in the center of the room. The cups they used for drinking (kylixes) were shaped so as to ease drinking while lying down and were great for flinging dregs.
So, I know that modern wines are far different from the first wines. Probably none of these wines would be appealing to the modern wine drinker. Still, I think "leave it alone" is still a great strategy for fining and aging wine.
Symposium
Kylix
