corny keg wine

[roylee]

I use a kegger & co2 system for homebrew. My wife and her friends prefer her homemade cherry wine, of which she makes about five gallons a year and bottles. She wants me to keg and carbonate her wine, which sounds doable, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried it or has thoughts as to whether it'd work. Cherry wine champagne is what she'd be making... nuts or not???
roylee

 

[Yooper]

If she'd like it carbonated, why not? I'm not a fan of carbonated wines at all- but it's her wine and if she thinks she will like it, I say do it!

 

[toddrod]

You must have read my mind. I was thinking about putting a batch of muscadine wine on tape but only using 3-5 CO2 pressure. Would this amount of pressure carbonate (I hope not)? I am not looking to carb, only to dispense from the keg.

 

[BigKahuna]

I carbed 1/2 a batch of SWMBO wine....Glad too, Cause it's not nearly as good as it is still.

I would not hesitate to hit still wine with 3# to serve....Should work fine.

 

[Loweface]

What would be the shelf life of an activly taped wine keg?

 

[Yooper]

What would be the shelf life of an activly taped wine keg?

As long as bottled wine- a keg is really just a big bottle, when you think about it. It's not opened to the elements- it's sealed up. It only comes out when you force co2 into the keg, so no risk of oxidation.

 

[roylee]

Thanks to all... I'm a first timer on this forum and wasn't sure what to expect (if anything). Good answers.. I'll keg the wine and see what happens.

 

[camiller]

Don't they make special lexan shanks and plastic faucets for kegged wine? Seems like I saw them in a Foxx equipment or Micromatic catalog.

Here is a article from home Winemaker magazine about kegging wine.

They suggest nitrogen to serve wine if you really don't want it bubbly.


Edit: Oh, and not to nitpick but shouldn't this be in the bottling & kegging forum?

 

[roylee]

Sorry. I just signed up. This was my first post and I didn't know it should have been put elsewhere.

 

[conpewter]

Nitro would be a good way to go to serve still wine.