About 2 weeks in, I pulled out the nylon bag of cherries.
Then I waited about five or six days, and racked the wine today.
I had someone ask in the comments section of the blog what "racking" is - so here's the dictionary.com definition; "To drain (wine or cider) from the dregs. "
It's also been described to me as clarifying the wine.
Here we go - the set up for today:
Next I filled my two CLEAN glass one gallon jugs:
And here's what you get:
This is what's left in the bottom of the barrel - it doesn't look too tasty:
So now the jugs will sit in my room for the next few months and I'll re-rack them again for clarity. I'll let you know how they turn out.
~See you next time
