found: Work cat.: Trasfegas : notas sobre a sua prĂ¡tica, 1948.
found: Oxford companion to wine, 2006:p. 560 (Racking: The wine-making operation of removing clear wine from the settled sediment or lees in the bottom of the container)
found: Lexique de la vigne et du vin, 1963:p. 321 (Racking: Transferring wine from one container to another so that the clear wine is drawn off and the lees are left behind)
found: Britannica online, June 8, 2009(racking: wine production)
found: Vines.org encyc. online, June 8, 2009(Racking and the lees: Gravity causes a natural clarification in which the major substances fall to the bottom of the vessel, creating the gross lees, that must be removed because otherwise they will give the wine a bitter flavor. Once the gross lees have settled, racking removes the wine into a fresh container)