Well, as you may know, my first wine is a Selection International kit.....Italian Barbaresco. The instructions say once it hits 1.010 or below to rack it to the carboy and let it sit 10 days until it hits 0.996, then add the packets #2/3 and degass etc. Well, I checked it saturday and it was 1.019 so I gave it a few days. Monday it read 1.002, but I forgot I had no carboy bungs (all in use with beer secondaries) and couldn't rack.
Flash forward to tonight and I racked it over to the secondary, but it already reads 0.996. So, do I still let it sit ten days, or just a few? Or do I proceed to the next step now? Did I screw up by letting it dip too low in the primary?
-Todd
Flash forward to tonight and I racked it over to the secondary, but it already reads 0.996. So, do I still let it sit ten days, or just a few? Or do I proceed to the next step now? Did I screw up by letting it dip too low in the primary?
-Todd