wine making 101

[RCF]

Hi Everyone,


Started making wine last year with a couple of friends. Have a Cab. Sauv. in Hungarian Oak barrels Since last January. Appears to be progressing well. This year we started with a Roussane and a Grenache and ended up doing a Syrah. All are in steel tanks kept at 55 degrees.

Here's our problem, we didn't rack off the gross lees from the Grenache till almost 3 weeks late and has a hydrogen sulfide odor. Was told by Beer Beer and More Beer to aerate the wine for a couple of days to remove odor?

Anyone have suggestions to salvage this wine?


Thanks,

Ron Fioretti

 

[Julie]

Hi Everyone,


Started making wine last year with a couple of friends. Have a Cab. Sauv. in Hungarian Oak barrels Since last January. Appears to be progressing well. This year we started with a Roussane and a Grenache and ended up doing a Syrah. All are in steel tanks kept at 55 degrees.

Here's our problem, we didn't rack off the gross lees from the Grenache till almost 3 weeks late and has a hydrogen sulfide odor. Was told by Beer Beer and More Beer to aerate the wine for a couple of days to remove odor?

Anyone have suggestions to salvage this wine?


Thanks,

Ron Fioretti

If you have a sulfide odor the best advice is to splash rack it, so Beer Beer is on the same page, aerate it will release the odor and it should be fine.

 

[robie]

Hi Everyone,


Started making wine last year with a couple of friends. Have a Cab. Sauv. in Hungarian Oak barrels Since last January. Appears to be progressing well. This year we started with a Roussane and a Grenache and ended up doing a Syrah. All are in steel tanks kept at 55 degrees.

Here's our problem, we didn't rack off the gross lees from the Grenache till almost 3 weeks late and has a hydrogen sulfide odor. Was told by Beer Beer and More Beer to aerate the wine for a couple of days to remove odor?

Anyone have suggestions to salvage this wine?


Thanks,

Ron Fioretti

Morewine sells reduless, which is a safe, copper based additive that will effectively remove the H2S and odor.



On a smaller scale you can use a copper tube for racking the wine. also, a solid copper scrubbing pad, available in most grocery stores, if sanitized well, can be place in with the wine. Both these copper solutions require splash racking afterward and repeated treatment until H2S is gone. Splash racking can use up free SO2 in the wine, so watch sulfite levels carefully.

 

[RCF]

If you have a sulfide odor the best advice is to splash rack it, so Beer Beer is on the same page, aerate it will release the odor and it should be fine.

Thanks for the info I will start aerating today, wish me luck

Ron

 

[edv]

I've gone so far as to strip the insulation off of a few feet of household copper electrical wiring and fashioning a 'copper spoon' to gently stir with in the carboy.