Racking to Secondary

[Oldchevytruck61]

I'm sure this has been brought up a lot before but I was wondering if you have to rack all wines to a secondary or just certain types?
Thanks for any replies


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[Arpolis]

You don't have to rack anything to secondary if you don't want to. Racking is used to get the wine off the gross lees and often the wine is not completely clear when we do this. So you reduce the chance of autolysis by remove much of the yeast while allowing the wine to further clear.

Also of you want to back sweeten rather than leave it dry then racking is good. Mixing stabilizing agents and dissolving sugar in the batch is impossible to do without kicking up more yeast.

But a have a couple recipe types I bottle strait from the primary so all is good either way you do it. You just may need to, to get the desired result.