Looking for sweeting wine help...

Al Margita · 2006-12-07T17:37:46+00:00

All:I am currently making a Estate Series Washington Valley Reisling white wine & am thinking about trying to make it a bit sweeter as I prefer sweeter wines. From what I've read the way to do it is to make a simple syrup & they add some to the bottle when corking it. Not knowing how sweet to make it I thought about adding varrious amounts & then marking the bottle as to how much simple syrup was added. Then I'll be able to tell which sweetness I prefer. Any ideas on how much to start with??? 1 oz, 1 1/2 oz, 2 oz???? Or am I going about this the wrong way?? Any help or suggestions will be appreciated,thanks in advance......Al

Dec 07, 2006 21 Replies

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Joe Sallustio 19 years ago

Thanks Gene; I have a decent height.

I'm going to measure the flow on my next bottling day. I'll measure the first, 13t'h and 25th to see what the rates are.

I'll base the calculations on that.

Joe

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frederick ploegman 19 years ago

Hi Mike

Years ago I got some Sodium Benzoate "pills" as a substitute item on one of my orders. Only instructions were one pill per gallon. At the time I was doing a long series of little one gallon "test" batches so I added that to my list.

Long story short, I ended up using it on 30 plus (33?) batches with never a problem. HTH

Frederick

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