Costco Chardonnay - Friday, June 18, 2021 - Marty's Wine

O.G. - 1.092

R.G. - 1.000

F.G. -  1.000

% -      12.5

Must Temp - 68 F.

The wine bag was leaking. I must of pinched it or something when I picked it up. I clipped my fingernails yesterday, so I don't know how that happened. I caught it though, early. Just a spot, always something.

Using a Muslim bag for the oak chips. They float, hope they don't interfere with the yeast that also floats. I have never read about using marbles to sink the bag. Done now. Yeast pitched at 12 noon.

                                       SEE THE MERLOT WINE FOR FERMENTATION NOTES

Gravity too high to rack. 1.012. Should be good to go 2-3 days later. Racked my merlot because it was at 1.000, go figure. Same wine company, same yeast, same ferment chamber, same, same, same. I will check the white and may as well let it go until near done before racking.  

                                                    BOTTLED ON AUGUST 23

Dreadfully hot in the laundry room bottling this. Never will I ever make wine in the summer again. Winter for sure, perhaps fall. No fridge to ferment in because I am making beer.