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In The Winery
reached. Wait until the wine is thoroughly mixed
and then double check that the desired wine tem-
perature has been achieved and holding. (Mixing
may be done in a non-splashing pump over fashion
with a pump, or two, that does not bleed any air
into the system)
What Moves Your Wine? 3.Weigh 3.0 (three) grams of Potassium bitar-
trate for every liter of wine in the tank. Example:
for a 5000 liter batch of wine we would weight
out 15000 grams of potassium bitartrate or 33.0
pounds.
4.Mix this amount of cream of tartar in water or
wine before adding it to the tank. (This step may
be avoided but make sure no clumps exist in the
cream of tarter and understand a larger quantity
of oxygen may go into the wine if the substance is
added dry)
5.Add the cream of tartar mixture to the chilled
Waukesha Positive Displacement & Centrifugal Pumps wine while mixing and mix for 3.0 hours or longer.
Gentle, Efficient, Carlsen Quality Make sure all the cream of tartar stays in solution
707-431-2000 • WWW.CARLSENASSOCIATES.COM and settling does not occur. Make sure the tem-
perature has remained at the desired level, as well,
during this process.
6.After the 3.0 hours, mixing may stop but the
chilling must remain on and continue to hold the
desired temperature.
7.Allow the wine to settle overnight, or longer, if
keeping the wine cold is not a concern. [Recent
research has shown an additional three days at
27.0 degrees F will improve the final conductivity
results favorably on the wines.] The wine could
remain in contact with the seed for months as long
as the temperature of the wine is not allowed to
rise. After the overnight settling period and when
filtration is desired.
8.Vent the tank and start from the racking valve
filtering on coarse filter pads making sure the filtra-
tion will go rapidly. (One may want to remove any
sediment “plug” first out of the racking valve by
purging into a bucket before starting filtration.)
9.Continue to filter very cold into a clean, tartrate
free, receiving tank.
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