2011 Muscat, impulsive second racking

With the holidays looming and knowing our weekends will be jammed I bolted ahead a couple of days and racked the Muscat again.  Very parsimonious - only lost 1.5 liters of 15 gallons, and made it up from a 750 ml overflow bottle and a 750 bottle of last year's Muscat.

This pic shows how low I was able to go in 2 of the 5 gallon carboys.  That's bentonite on the bottom of the cb.  Take a good look at what's behind the empty: to the left is Uh Oh No. 1 (which I am now thinking of calling Bee Sting) and to the right is the next cb of Muscat waiting to be racked.

I decided not to rack the Bee Sting, but left it on the bench.  I don't have anything to top it with other than last year's Muscat.  I think what I'll do is just go ahead and bottle it after it settles another day or two up there.

Stolen wine to make taralli: forgive me

Sorry, fellow winemakers, I stole a half cup of wine from our overflow vessel this morning to make taralli.