Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine TAKE 2 (West Coast)

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Bottled wine. A lotta bottled wine TAKE 2 (West Coast)

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The short story is I ended up with over a 100 cases of bottled wine from a local winery, around 250 gallons. It an average of 20 years old. We're surrounded by wineries here, I can't help to think how much of it gets wasted.

Anyway, I was able to pick up half of it, 55 cases was all that would fit in my garage! It's a mix of Pinot Gris and Riesling (dry, semi-dry, & sweet) I'm not sure whats on the other pallet, I'm assuming more whites. My plan is to attempt a brandy, I will also make plenty of neutral from it as well.

I tossed a few bottles into my mini 2l still just to see what would happen with the sulfites. It went really well, I was able to toss a foreshot of pretty horrible stuff and the remainder of the strip was quite pleasant!

So I went full bore and uncorked about 300 bottles for about 53 gallons (200l) to strip. Ended with 13 gal/50l at 35%!

Big question is what to do next?? I don't have a plated column for a brandy, but I have a packed column :problem: so I was thinking I could compress the heads to remove any nasty sulfites, then run the VM wide open to make cuts? typically for a neutral I would run my 3" column packed 60" high, but I have options to shorten that to just about any height down to about 36", to get closure to replicating a plated column.

The other option is to pot still it and see what happens.
13.5g/50L keg
modular 3" pot/VM copper&stainless w/offset gin head
26g jacketed 4" stripping still
12,000watts of fury

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