The wikipedia article on Muscat of Alexandria says that Cleopatra drank wine made from these grapes grown on the island of Samos.
No significant changes. Maybe a little banding of the color - the wine toward the neck of the carboy looking more like juice than sherbet. Very fine co2 bubbles running up the glass. A rare movement in the airlock.
Getting the wine off the gross lees should be this weekend or next. We should probably seize the day while we have the time. Doing it this weekend matches what we did in 2012 (day 15). In 2011 we racked off the gross lees on day 11 (October 4) and we racked again & fined on November 13, 40 days and 40 nights later (day 51.)
Iverson (Iverson, Jon. Home Winemaking, Step-by-step: A Guide to Fermenting Wine Grapes. Medford, OR: Stonemark Pub., 2009. Print) fines during the first racking off the gross lees. I kind of like that idea, though we've never done it that way before - it really pushes the schedule forward. If we do that we'd use bentonite, and we'd prep it today / tonight to use tomorrow.
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