World Vineyard Italian Barolo

Another new wine opportunity for me. I have completed making the new World Vineyard Italian Barolo. The Barolo wine is fast becoming one of my favorite red wines. This wine kit made up very easily and the instructions were simple to follow.

In the first stage the fermentation started almost immediately with pressure on the plastic cover within a couple of hours. My room temperature was consistent at 22C throughout the full time period.

By stage two in 5 days the SG was 1.004, which is consistent with the instructions.

Stage three took a little longer than the instructions, 14 days before I got 2 consecutive SG readings of .992. Stabilizing went well, the wine degassed properly and once again I got to play with my Wine Whip 😀 .

By bottling day the wine had cleared to a beautiful ruby red. After racking it to another carboy I decided I would filter this wine. I don’t filter all of my wines but because I want to drink this wine early, I did.

My bottling is finished and I totally enjoyed the aroma of this wine while I was leaning over the bottles as they filled. Believe it or not there was a glass of wine left over for me to analyze. This time my planning was perfect, just before supper. So I tested the wine by it’s self and found it enjoyable but young, I would give it a month or two to age. But with supper I found it superb very robust and the tannins where perfect. So either way it’s good out of the carboy or with aging.

Remember your best 2 bottles of wine will be your last 2 bottles of wine. So don’t wait, put another kit on.

Jim Everton
Manager (Wine Sense – Southdale)

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