Made a plum wine several weeks ago and it is in secondary and needs racking. I was hoping the sediment would drop more but looks like I am going to lose about 1/4 of the batch to sediment. Should I go ahead and rack off the sediment now or give it some more time to see if it collapses any more. It’s been in secondary prolly three weeks.
Also, I have another gallon or so of plums in the freezer that I had planned on racking the wine onto. If I do this should I add more yeast and pectin enzyme?
If it is just sediment and not haze then give it time. I usually let my plum wine sit a month or 2 after the first racking and its clears completely.
What is the purpose of adding the extra plums?
just though it would punch up the aroma some. though it smells pretty "plummy now, still have the plums and wanna use them
They will probably start fermenting unless you add campden and sorbate first and let the yeast settle for a month or so then rack clean. I guess after that it would be like back sweetening with plum juice.
I have also found with fruit wine I get alot of very fine sediment that takes a long time to settle. I always put my carboy to rest where I will be racking from for a week or so before racking to the bottling bucket. That way I don’t have to move it and stir up the sediment again.