Making Wine is Fun Part II
Racking into the secondary The next part of our Limited Edition Winexpert Cabernet Merlot kit involves racking into a carboy and this is called the secondary fermentation phase. After 6 days in the primary bucket, fermentation has come to an end since there is little activity in the airlock. A SG reading should show 1.010 or less and that is what we have at this point. We are now ready to rack the wine into the glass carboy. Not a lot of fermentation takes place at this next stage but enough to prepare for the last phase in 10 days when the final chemicals are added to the wine. I will describe the chemicals and what needs to be done in Part III so stay tuned. the primary fermentation container A little trick to siphoning that really works is this; rather than try to suck the wine through the siphon tube by mouth into the secondary it is much easier to fill the siphon tube with water, clamp one end to keep the water in the tube and then viola it will sip...