Re-Bottling?

[smurfe]

OK, another of my hair-brained newbie questions here.

Can you re-bottle wine? Lets say it has been in the bottle about 6 months. I have a kit that is still a little gassy and has quite a bit of sediment in it.

It is a white wine and while it is quite tasty, it is visually unappealing particularly when the sediment sticks to the side ofthe bottle like a mucous secretion.

It is the first kit I ever bottled and I didn't do a very good job. Could I filter this wine and re-bottle it or just live and learn from it?

Smurfe

 

[geocorn]

You can re-bottle it if you really want to. I would add 1/4 tsp. of K-Meta per 6 gallons to be on the safe side. Pour your wine into a glass carboy, top off and let sit for several weeks (with the K-meta). When it is clear, bottle as normal.


You could always just decant the wine for 1 hour prior to drinking.

 

[Hal Maulden]

smurfe,





Yes you can. You can also check for degassing very easy. Open a bottle, stick the cork back into the bottle. Shake the crap out of, pull the cork, if it pops like a beer, you have gas.





Hal

 

[smurfe]

Thanks for the info. What I really want to know is if I can open the bottles, filter the wine and then bottle it right back up.


I really think filtering would eliminate the little bit of gas left in it. There are just some bubbles around the glass, there is no "pop" when I uncork.


I guess I could buy a 3 or 5 gallon carboy to put it in if it needed to sit for a while. I have drank quite a few bottles of it. I will probably just leave it as is and learn from it and just make another similar kit.


Smurfe

 

[masta]

Yes you can pour out the wine, filter and re bottle but I would add some more K-meta as George suggested just to be safe since you will be aerating your wine with this operation. Edited by: masta