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Hi everybody

Just to get it out in the open, Im pretty new to winemaking.

I had just recently bottled a Vintners Reserve Barolo. When I started the kit I noticed the concentrate was brown around the miniscus, which I to my knowledge indicates oxidation has occured. The kit was a year old before started, is that why it has oxidated? Bare with my ignorance but can a must oxidate or does it have to be fermenting?
 
Any fruit or juice can oxidize. It sounds like your juice was already oxidized. If you had taken it back to the LHBS, you could have gotten a replacement. Now that it is fermented, I don't know what your options are.
 
Sorry I am a little late responding.
Juice can get old. Did you notice the born-on date of the kit?

The maker guarantees the kit to be good.

Jim is right. However, if you just bottled it, since it is guaranteed (that is if you made it per the instructions), you might first call the manufacturer about it, then take several of the bottles back to the LHBS. You have nothing to loose at this point...

If the LHBS wants your future business, maybe he will work with you.

By the way, how does it taste? Barolo is a little different.

Good luck.
 

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