Batch #3 – Started 11/9/2010 – Cabernet Sauvignon – California Reserve
by Cellar Craft (Sterling Collection) Lot#140154
Day O – Primary Fermentation Started – 11/9 at 12PM – Specific Gravity = 1.080 / 10.5%PA (initial reading)
12 liters grape juice + grape pack
13 liters Nestle Purified water
40 Grams French Oak shavings #020780 (Stirred)
15 Grams bentonite
5 Grams yeast (EC-1118) (Stirred)
Day 2 (11/11) Specific Gravity = 1.070 / xxxPA Stirred keeping grape pack submerged
Day 4 (11/13) Specific Gravity = 1.025 /3.2%PA Stirred keeping grape pack submerged
Day 6 (11/15) Specific Gravity = 1.008 / 1.0% PA Stirred keeping grape pack submerged
Day 8 (11/17) Specific Gravity = 1.000 /xxx%PA Racked
Added Enzyme pack
Day 10 (11/19) Specific Gravity = 1.000 /xxx%PA Stirred
Day 12 (11/21) Specific Gravity = 1.000 /xxx%PA Stirred
Day 38 (12/17) Specific Gravity = 0.997/xxx%PA
Racked wine into Primary fermenter and degassed
Added Potassium Metabisulfite and Sorbate
Racked wine back into Glass Carboy
Added Kieselsol into carboy – stirred for 1 minute, let sit for 1 hour
Added 3/4 bottle of Oak Leaf Merlot
Added Chitosan to warm water, then to carboy – stirred for 1 minute and replaced airlock
Day 54 (1/2/11) Bottling Day
Racked off sediment into Primary bucket
Finished bottling (31 bottles Clear and bright)
