Sangio 2nd Racking

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The Sangio still has a strong rotten egg smell, but is definitely better than it was--we continue to be hopeful that we can fix it.  We added 20ppm meta and then racked it over copper.  We will wait several days and check it again.  Once we feel it is better we plan to run it through a fine filter to remove any "elemental sulfur" that has precipitated out of the wine.  There was already some amount of sediment on the bottom of the SS kegs that we threw out. We ended up topping with clone-6 cab as we didn't have enough sangio to fully fill all 4 of the 15G tanks.  After the next racking we'll switch to topping with the Williamson cabernet that will be used in the Super Tuscan.

 

Merlot is at 6 brix and Cab was around 7 brix. We plan to press them in 3 days on Sunday, around 1pm in the afternoon.

 

We put proxyclean in any barrel that had a sulfur wick burned in it.  They will get a meta/citric rinse before we fill them with cab on Sunday.  Several of the barrels were leaking and are being hydrated.  The 2 30G Hungarian barrels need a good meta/citric rinse.