Filthy Good Vino

We’re still focusing on tannin for the Filthy Good Vino Bathtub Winemaking Project. This time it’s all about giant teabags … full of stalks, not, tea! Just like the seeds stalks contain tannins, flavours and aromas that we want to guide and layer into the wine. Check the “teabags” and a detailed walk through steep the biggest teabag you’ll ever see in the video.

 Dismantling the stalk teabag!

The before shot! Making the stalk teabag on the day of picking. Checkout how green those stalks look!

Extraction of the Stalk Teabag DONE!

Amazing colour pick-up! First time ever I’d be happy having anything to do with Tie Died Cloth!

Today’s one of the peak days during fermentation. Where about half way through now. The yeast are moving fast, sugar is dropping quickly, heat is being generated and alcohol levels increasing. It’s time to focus on tannin.

My little assistant winemaker helping plunge this morning!

The video below explores  some of the tannin management I’m doing this year taking a look at skins, seeds and stalks.

Reaching down to the bottom of the vat to scoop up seeds and remove them.

It’s dirty work, but, someone has to do it!

You can see a green seed from some second crop accidentally picked during harvest.

A handful of the seeds removed from the fermenting vat of grapes.

Passing solids from the bottom of the vat gently through my ghetto style seed separator, a bakers cooling rack. If you look carefully you can see a few seeds falling through. The skins stay on the top and are returned to the vat.