{"id":293,"date":"2019-10-04T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:51:21","slug":"the-joys-of-racking-your-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/the-joys-of-racking-your-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Racking Your Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Joys of Racking Your Wine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Racking your wine is a necessary evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We know it can be tedious, but in the end it is so worth it.<\/p>\n<h3>Things to keep in mind when racking:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cleanliness:<\/strong> We cannot express this enough. The cleaner your cellar, the less risk you have of spoilage, the better your wine will be. Aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juicegrape.com\/Potassium-Metabisulfite-1-pound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">SANITIZE EVERYTHING<\/span><\/strong><\/a>!! (however if doing MLF rinse with hot water as not to agitate the ML bacteria)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Primary Racking:<\/strong> Rack after your primary fermentation is complete. This protects your wine from any initial microbial fermentation issues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondary Racking:<\/strong> Rack after fermentation has finished. At the second racking you will want to rack your wine into an aging vessel. Whether that is a stainless steel tank or an oak barrel. Don&#8217;t forget to sulfite, unless you are doing MLF.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third and\/or Fourth Racking:<\/strong> Is used more clarification purposes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Using a<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juicegrape.com\/Pump-Transfer-DM-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pump<\/a><\/span> makes life so much easier.<\/strong> You can pretty much sit back and relax with a glass of wine while your juice in being transferred. If you don&#8217;t have a pump the best way to rack is by using a <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juicegrape.com\/Siphon-Auto-12in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">siphon<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and the gravity method. Put the primary vessel up some place high and rack into your new vessel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joys of Racking Your Wine Racking your wine is a necessary evil. We know it can be tedious, but in the end it is so worth it. Things to keep in mind when racking: Cleanliness: We cannot express this enough. The cleaner your cellar, the less risk you have of spoilage, the better your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[732,512,733],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/iStock-123466347.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZM5f-4J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}