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when bottle washing, what are some of you adding to your water, if anything?

Completed a Dashwood Pinot Noir kit, bottled, and aged for about a year. Went through the first five bottles within a month, or so, and loved the taste. Had a very obvious "cherry/rasberry" hint of flavor. The sixth bottle, however, had a strange wood/cork after-taste....Not sure how the flavor...

Glad to be on the forum...Been making various kits for a little over a year and have many questions. Pretty surprised, so far, at how good the first few batches have turned out.....My first question is,what is the benefit(s) of aging in a carboy longer than the recommended time inthe kit...