Sunday 3 February 2013

New challenge wine lees

A new challenge for us at the start of this coming week - the distillation of wine lees. These are the waste product of the fermentation of wine. The bit at the bottom of the vat that contains a lot of wine but also a lot of yeast debris.

The challenge actually began as soon as the lees arrived: our forklift immobiliser broke so we had to find a way of removing over a tonne of product without it. The ramp idea failed after several goes and eventually a drain pipe and hand-balling proved the solution!

Live and learn!


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