2015 wines racked, tasted, mystery haze

Racked yesterday afternoon.  Lees were modest in both wines, and poured from the CDs while cleaning the Muscat lees smelled very nice.  More salts in the the rose than in the Muscat, which surprised me.

I used some 2014 Muscat to top with, maybe 2 quarts across the 15 gallons (making the wine now 3% 2014, 97% 2015).  The 4 gallons of rose I topped with half of the liter bottle we'd filled when we came off the gross lees.

I didn't notice it until racking the third Muscat carboy but there was a theady, veil-like haze in the wine, most of it seemed to be gathered at the periphery, maybe hugging the glass, but not all of it.  Looking at the relative clarity of the racked carboys I'm assuming the haze was also in the first CB but not the second.  (The second seems crystal clear.)  It looked like the haze was generally falling with the wine and might have mostly ended in the lees.  I took some photos, hoping the haze could be seen at all, and to my horror it looks wildly worse in the photos than it did to my eye.  Research!  I see Bentonite in our future!

2015 Muscat, day 87

SO2 at about 20 PPM.  Will have to decide on whether to give a slight boost at racking and then not touch it again, hoping that this will be the last rack before bottling.  Or leave it alone now and test again next week to see what racking did to the wine?

Acid at about .65% tartaric, or 4.16 ppt sulfuric.  Probably slightly higher, but not much, and that puts us just into the bottom of the range we were shooting for.  (Tasting it at 6:30 in the morning on an unwashed tongue I would have guessed higher.)

Color is great.  Nose isn't remarkable.  I think we're somewhere between the very good 2013 and the OK 2014

Put a couple of carboys up on the bench for racking later today.  The thin lees look like they have crystals in them.  We'll know pretty soon.

No measurement of the rosé yet.