We will Bottle a Batch of Red, White, & Blue® and “Touch” Several Other Wines at Various Stages in the Winemaking Process

We are bottling Red, White, & Blue this week. We are also starting to cold stabilize another batch of Red, White, & Blue. We will rack and transfer our Iowa In the Dark and also Iowa St. Pepin. With each wine, we’ll measure the dissolved oxygen and then run Nitrogen through the wine if needed. Two dry red wines are ready to be transferred from barrels to stainless tanks. The next step will be cold stabilization. Every week or so, we test each of our tanks for its SO₂ level and we will add some SO₂ if necessary. We also top each of our tanks with dry ice to blanket the top of the wine in the tank with CO₂.