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Jim
 
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Default Stirring on the fine lees question

Thank you Tom and Ben for the information.

On 31 Oct 2003 06:28:08 -0800, (Ben Rotter)
wrote:

>Jim,
>
>> > If you wish to stir on the fine lees to in encourage autolysis and
>> > give the wine complexity can this be done after you have added
>> > potassium metabisulphite and what would be a suitable regime when
>> > doing the stirring?

>
>Yes that's fine. Scroll down to "Stirring Schedules" at
>
http://members.tripod.com/~BRotter/Surlie.htm
>for some common regimes.
>
>Tom,
>
>> I stir the wine on it's _gross_ lees, but aside from that there's no
>> difference.

>
>Using that terminology can be confusing given that you do some serious
>juice settling resulting in essentially "fine lees" (by definition) in
>what would normally be regarded as "gross" or (perhaps better put as)
>"bulk" lees. (This confusion arose earlier in the recent "Forgot to
>Cold Settle - Advice?" thread.)
>
>Ben